UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025101800.upa.cvt Date: 0000Z 18 OCT 25 Searching for VI516... Searching the city database file for: VI516 ... Date:0000Z 18 OCT 25 Station: VI516 WMO ident: 42516 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 843 1475 15.4 13.1 86 2.3 13.9 0 0 303.0 305.1 293.4 336.6 11.31 1 118 15668 -74.9 -100.9 1 26.0 -74.9 275 27 365.3 365.3 299.7 365.3 0.00 2 100 16630 -76.3 -101.3 1 25.0 -76.3 300 10 380.3 380.3 302.3 380.3 0.00 TRP 118 15668 -74.9 -100.9 1 26.0 -74.9 275 27 365.3 365.3 299.7 365.3 0.00 WND Sounding variables and indices Freezing level: 719.36 mb = 3895.76 m = 12781.21 ft Wetbulb zero: 729.50 mb = 2519.11 m = 8264.70 ft Precipitable water: 1.62 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 93.70 % Est. max temperature: 22.51 C = 72.53 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 814.59 mb = 1722.77 m = 5652.07 ft T: 13.83 C 700-500 lapse rate: 6.36 C/km ThetaE index: 0.00 C Layer 843.0- 0.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 118.00 mb = 15667.94 m = 51403.38 ft Mean mixing ratio: 31.27 g/kg Conv temperature: 204.28 C = 399.71 F Cap Strength: -10.17 C Lifted Index: -17.10 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -21.40 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -12.79 C Showalter Index: -0.35 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 45.68 C Risk: Scattered moderate thunderstorms Vertical Totals Index: 23.99 C Cross Totals Index: 21.69 C K Index: 32.55 Risk: 60-80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 164.37 Risk: None Energy Index: -2.55 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms probable Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 263925.19 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 726.53 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 11382.84 J/kg Cap Strength: 3.84 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 1097.48 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 281 at 9 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 843 1475 0 0 -0.0 -0.0 | 101 9 -8.4 1.6 1 811 1829 40 5 -3.2 -3.8 | 79 12 -11.6 -2.3 2 784 2134 20 3 -1.0 -2.8 | 82 9 -9.4 -1.2 3 758 2438 315 4 2.8 -2.8 | 77 6 -5.6 -1.2 4 733 2743 325 6 3.4 -4.9 | 56 6 -4.9 -3.3 5 709 3048 25 2 -0.8 -1.8 | 89 9 -9.2 -0.2 6 700 3162 85 3 -3.0 -0.3 | 97 11 -11.4 1.3 7 658 3658 245 2 1.8 0.8 | 110 7 -6.6 2.4 8 634 3962 245 11 10.0 4.6 | 194 6 1.6 6.2 9 610 4267 225 17 12.0 12.0 | 195 14 3.6 13.6 10 587 4572 215 19 10.9 15.6 | 188 17 2.5 17.1 11 565 4877 230 16 12.3 10.3 | 198 12 3.9 11.9 12 524 5486 260 15 14.8 2.6 | 237 8 6.4 4.2 13 500 5860 255 15 14.5 3.9 | 228 8 6.1 5.5 14 485 6096 260 15 14.8 2.6 | 237 8 6.4 4.2 15 400 7570 255 19 18.4 4.9 | 237 12 10.0 6.5 16 397 7620 255 18 17.4 4.7 | 235 11 9.0 6.2 17 323 9144 255 35 33.8 9.1 | 247 28 25.4 10.6 18 300 9680 260 34 33.5 5.9 | 253 26 25.1 7.5 19 260 10668 260 40 39.4 6.9 | 255 32 31.0 8.5 20 250 10950 255 41 39.6 10.6 | 249 34 31.2 12.2 21 207 12192 255 38 36.7 9.8 | 248 31 28.3 11.4 22 200 12430 260 38 37.4 6.6 | 254 30 29.0 8.2 23 163 13716 270 41 41.0 -0.0 | 267 33 32.6 1.6 24 150 14240 265 33 32.9 2.9 | 260 25 24.5 4.5 25 118 15668 275 27 26.9 -2.4 | 272 19 18.5 -0.8 26 100 16630 300 10 8.7 -5.0 | 355 3 0.3 -3.4 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 250.7 at 11.4 knts Storm direction: 280.7 at 8.5 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 1.2 neg: 2.0 tot: 3.2 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 89.8 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 36.8 neg: -19.9 tot: 16.9 m^2/s^2 ave: 5.6 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.22 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 8.0 stream: 1.7 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 40.58 Bulk Rich Number: 10073.35 Bulk Shear: 26.20 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 38 3 85 10| 4.2 0.0 4.2| 0.3 -8.4 -8.0 -16.1 -0.58| 6.0 -3.4 1000 17 3 80 10| 2.1 2.6 4.6| 1.1 -10.4 -9.3 -9.3 -0.36| 5.6 -2.0 1500 356 4 75 8| 2.2 1.7 3.9| 7.4 -12.6 -5.2 -3.5 -0.14| 5.9 -0.8 2000 4 4 77 9| 1.3 1.3 2.6| 24.6 -12.6 12.0 6.0 0.15| 6.5 1.0 2500 331 4 75 7| 1.4 1.0 2.4| 36.0 -13.2 22.8 9.1 0.31| 7.5 2.4 3000 255 6 139 4| 1.2 2.0 3.2| 36.8 -19.9 16.9 5.6 0.22| 8.0 1.7 4000 241 9 172 6| 1.4 1.5 2.9| 63.8 -22.6 41.2 10.3 0.30| 7.9 2.4 5000 248 10 190 5| 1.2 1.2 2.5| 66.2 -24.6 41.6 8.3 0.29| 6.6 1.9 6000 251 11 204 6| 1.0 1.3 2.3| 66.3 -24.8 41.4 6.9 0.28| 5.8 1.6 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VI516/skewt/VI516.skewt.20251018.00.gif