UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025041512.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 15 APR 25 Searching for VGTJ... Searching the city database file for: VGTJ ... Date:1200Z 15 APR 25 Station: VGTJ WMO ident: 41923 Latitude: 23.77 Longitude: 90.38 Elevation: 9.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEV PRES HGHT TEMP DEWP RH DD WETB DIR SPD THETA THE-V THE-W THE-E W mb m C C % C C deg knt K K K K g/kg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SFC 1007 9 32.4 20.4 49 12.0 23.8 0 0 304.9 307.8 296.7 350.2 15.15 1 1000 74 31.6 20.6 52 11.0 23.7 255 4 304.8 307.6 296.8 350.9 15.45 2 925 768 24.6 18.6 69 6.0 20.4 275 7 304.5 307.2 296.3 348.4 14.74 3 894 1066 22.0 17.8 77 4.2 19.1 249 6 304.8 307.5 296.2 348.0 14.49 4 850 1503 18.8 13.8 73 5.0 15.5 210 4 305.8 308.0 294.6 341.1 11.75 5 849 1513 18.6 13.6 73 5.0 15.3 210 4 305.7 307.9 294.4 340.6 11.61 6 729 2805 11.2 1.2 50 10.0 5.7 206 6 311.3 312.3 291.5 329.1 5.73 7 700 3143 9.0 0.0 53 9.0 4.2 205 7 312.5 313.5 291.6 329.6 5.47 8 604 4346 0.0 -6.0 64 6.0 -2.8 225 14 315.5 316.3 291.3 328.5 4.05 9 589 4548 -0.5 -9.5 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322 9115 -27.4 -34.1 53 6.7 -28.6 230 76 339.8 339.9 294.9 342.3 0.66 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5766.00 m Freezing level: 604.00 mb = 4346.00 m = 14258.37 ft Wetbulb zero: 642.45 mb = 3842.67 m = 12607.05 ft Precipitable water: 1.74 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 59.27 % Est. max temperature: 33.13 C = 91.63 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 847.01 mb = 1533.02 m = 5029.53 ft T: 18.49 C 700-500 lapse rate: 6.64 C/km ThetaE index: 21.75 C Layer 925.0- 700.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 822.40 mb = 1782.95 m = 5849.50 ft Mean mixing ratio: 15.03 g/kg Conv temperature: 34.36 C = 93.84 F Cap Strength: 1.14 C Lifted Index: -5.76 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -3.04 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -1.45 C Showalter Index: -2.53 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms possible Total Totals Index: 50.40 C Risk: Scattered heavy thunderstorms Vertical Totals Index: 27.70 C Cross Totals Index: 22.70 C K Index: 32.50 Risk: 60-80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 224.60 Risk: None Energy Index: -2.25 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms probable Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 1217.16 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 49.34 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 22.98 J/kg Cap Strength: 1.17 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 849.69 mb = 1506.15 m = 4941.36 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 774.69 mb = 2289.52 m = 7511.46 ft Equ Level (EL): 244.69 mb = 11033.39 m = 36198.35 ft B at Equ Level: 1216.58 J/kg Max Parcel Lev (MPL): 124.69 mb = 15317.62 m = 50254.04 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 268 at 8 knt ---------------------------------------------------------- TRUE/GROUND REL | STORM REL LEV P H DIR SPD U V | DIR SPD U V mb m knt m/s | knt m/s ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 1007 9 0 0 -0.0 -0.0 | 88 8 -7.8 -0.3 1 1000 74 255 4 3.9 1.0 | 101 4 -3.9 0.8 2 925 768 275 7 7.0 -0.6 | 44 1 -0.8 -0.9 3 850 1503 210 4 2.0 3.5 | 119 7 -5.8 3.2 4 700 3143 205 7 3.0 6.3 | 141 8 -4.9 6.1 5 500 5840 250 23 21.6 7.9 | 241 16 13.8 7.6 6 400 7530 240 42 36.4 21.0 | 234 35 28.6 20.7 7 322 9115 230 76 58.2 48.9 | 226 70 50.4 48.6 8 300 9620 230 72 55.2 46.3 | 226 66 47.3 46.0 9 250 10890 235 62 50.8 35.6 | 231 56 43.0 35.3 10 200 12380 225 51 36.1 36.1 | 218 46 28.3 35.8 11 150 14210 240 33 28.6 16.5 | 232 26 20.8 16.2 12 100 16640 335 33 13.9 -29.9 | 349 31 6.1 -30.2 13 72 18520 315 10 7.1 -7.1 | 6 7 -0.7 -7.3 14 70 18680 335 8 3.4 -7.3 | 31 9 -4.4 -7.5 15 50 20610 20 9 -3.1 -8.5 | 51 14 -10.9 -8.7 16 30 23770 180 10 0.0 10.0 | 141 12 -7.8 9.7 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 238.2 at 10.4 knts Storm direction: 268.2 at 7.8 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 0.0 neg: 1.2 tot: 1.2 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 51.8 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 7.3 neg: -1.9 tot: 5.3 m^2/s^2 ave: 1.8 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.21 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 2.9 stream: 0.6 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.03 Bulk Rich Number: 216.91 Bulk Shear: 5.61 m/s Storm Parameters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Depth Mean Inflow| Shear | Helicity | Vorticity AGL Dir Spd Dir Spd| Pos Neg Tot| Pos Neg Tot Ave Rel | Hor Strm m knt knt| 10^-3/s | m^2/s^2 m/s^2 | 10^-3/s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 262 5 97 3| 0.0 6.0 6.0| 1.8 -0.3 1.5 3.0 0.14| 6.4 0.9 1000 267 6 92 2| 0.0 3.1 3.1| 2.4 -0.6 1.8 1.8 0.17| 5.0 0.9 1500 260 5 105 3| 0.0 1.4 1.4| 2.5 -1.9 0.6 0.4 0.07| 4.8 0.3 2000 249 5 118 3| 0.0 1.3 1.3| 4.1 -1.9 2.2 1.1 0.13| 3.8 0.5 2500 239 5 125 4| 0.0 1.2 1.2| 5.7 -1.9 3.8 1.5 0.17| 3.3 0.6 3000 232 5 131 5| 0.0 1.2 1.2| 7.3 -1.9 5.3 1.8 0.21| 2.9 0.6 4000 224 6 141 5| 0.7 0.9 1.6| 19.9 -1.9 17.9 4.5 0.41| 2.9 1.2 5000 228 8 161 5| 1.3 0.7 2.0| 38.6 -1.9 36.7 7.3 0.53| 3.1 1.6 6000 238 10 191 5| 1.8 0.6 2.3| 60.6 -2.3 58.3 9.7 0.56| 3.3 1.9 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VGTJ/skewt/VGTJ.skewt.20250415.12.gif