UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025050112.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 1 MAY 25 Searching for VO243... Searching the city database file for: VO243 ... Date:1200Z 1 MAY 25 Station: VO243 WMO ident: 43243 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1003 19 35.0 26.0 60 9.0 28.1 130 8 307.9 311.9 301.1 373.4 21.55 1 1000 46 35.2 21.2 44 14.0 24.9 115 14 308.4 311.4 298.1 357.0 16.05 2 925 747 29.8 20.8 59 9.0 23.2 135 13 309.8 313.0 299.0 361.4 16.95 3 850 1497 25.4 14.4 51 11.0 17.8 305 2 312.8 315.1 296.7 350.4 12.23 4 700 3166 13.0 -3.0 33 16.0 4.6 20 15 316.9 317.7 292.0 331.0 4.38 5 500 5890 -4.1 -36.1 6 32.0 -11.5 335 6 328.0 328.1 291.5 329.4 0.35 6 400 7610 -15.9 -41.9 9 26.0 -20.3 275 14 334.3 334.4 293.1 335.3 0.24 7 300 9720 -28.5 -50.5 10 22.0 -30.7 270 34 345.2 345.2 295.7 345.7 0.12 8 250 11000 -38.3 -61.3 7 23.0 -39.5 270 31 349.1 349.1 296.5 349.3 0.04 9 200 12500 -50.5 -66.5 13 16.0 -50.9 245 35 352.8 352.8 297.3 352.9 0.02 10 150 14300 -65.3 -81.3 9 16.0 -65.4 280 37 357.6 357.6 298.2 357.6 0.00 11 100 16690 -77.1 -102.1 1 25.0 -77.1 90 20 378.8 378.8 302.1 378.8 0.00 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5844.00 m Freezing level: 547.95 mb = 5236.88 m = 17181.15 ft Wetbulb zero: 642.51 mb = 3859.80 m = 12663.23 ft Precipitable water: 1.64 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 33.63 % Est. max temperature: 39.75 C = 103.55 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 882.02 mb = 1168.97 m = 3835.16 ft T: 27.32 C 700-500 lapse rate: 6.28 C/km ThetaE index: 32.08 C Layer 850.0- 400.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 744.24 mb = 2639.22 m = 8658.74 ft Mean mixing ratio: 16.50 g/kg Conv temperature: 42.76 C = 108.96 F Cap Strength: 4.20 C Lifted Index: -4.32 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -5.02 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.03 C Showalter Index: -1.31 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 48.00 C Risk: Scattered moderate thunderstorms Vertical Totals Index: 29.50 C Cross Totals Index: 18.50 C K Index: 27.90 Risk: 40-60 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 182.80 Risk: None Energy Index: -3.96 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms probable Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 1783.85 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 59.73 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 182.20 J/kg Cap Strength: 4.20 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 812.76 mb = 1882.09 m = 6174.76 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 697.76 mb = 3191.92 m = 10472.06 ft Equ Level (EL): 137.76 mb = 14801.67 m = 48561.30 ft B at Equ Level: 1753.49 J/kg Wind level data Storm motion: 54 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 1003 19 130 8 -6.1 5.1 | 188 11 1.4 10.5 1 1000 46 115 14 -12.7 5.9 | 156 12 -5.1 11.3 2 972 305 130 18 -13.8 11.6 | 160 18 -6.2 17.0 3 939 610 125 15 -12.3 8.6 | 161 15 -4.7 14.0 4 925 747 135 13 -9.2 9.2 | 174 15 -1.6 14.6 5 908 914 145 9 -5.2 7.4 | 191 13 2.4 12.8 6 877 1219 205 5 2.1 4.5 | 224 14 9.7 9.9 7 850 1497 305 2 1.6 -1.1 | 245 10 9.2 4.3 8 818 1829 355 5 0.4 -5.0 | 267 8 8.0 0.4 9 789 2134 10 7 -1.2 -6.9 | 283 7 6.3 -1.5 10 762 2438 30 8 -4.0 -6.9 | 293 4 3.6 -1.5 11 735 2743 35 11 -6.3 -9.0 | 341 4 1.2 -3.6 12 710 3048 25 15 -6.3 -13.6 | 352 8 1.2 -8.2 13 700 3166 20 15 -5.1 -14.1 | 344 9 2.4 -8.7 14 659 3658 15 18 -4.7 -17.4 | 346 12 2.9 -12.0 15 634 3962 20 20 -6.8 -18.8 | 357 13 0.7 -13.4 16 611 4267 20 21 -7.2 -19.7 | 359 14 0.4 -14.3 17 588 4572 5 21 -1.8 -20.9 | 340 17 5.7 -15.5 18 567 4877 355 17 1.5 -16.9 | 322 15 9.0 -11.5 19 526 5486 360 8 -0.0 -8.0 | 289 8 7.6 -2.6 20 500 5890 335 6 2.5 -5.4 | 270 10 10.1 -0.0 21 487 6096 340 5 1.7 -4.7 | 266 9 9.3 0.7 22 400 7610 275 14 13.9 -1.2 | 259 22 21.5 4.2 23 399 7620 275 12 12.0 -1.0 | 257 20 19.5 4.4 24 325 9144 275 35 34.9 -3.1 | 267 42 42.4 2.3 25 300 9720 270 34 34.0 -0.0 | 263 42 41.6 5.4 26 262 10668 275 33 32.9 -2.9 | 266 41 40.4 2.5 27 250 11000 270 31 31.0 -0.0 | 262 39 38.6 5.4 28 209 12192 240 32 27.7 16.0 | 239 41 35.3 21.4 29 200 12500 245 35 31.7 14.8 | 243 44 39.3 20.2 30 165 13716 245 36 32.6 15.2 | 243 45 40.2 20.6 31 150 14300 280 37 36.4 -6.4 | 271 44 44.0 -1.0 32 128 15240 290 30 28.2 -10.3 | 278 36 35.7 -4.9 33 100 16690 90 20 -20.0 0.0 | 113 14 -12.4 5.4 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 24.4 at 12.4 knts Storm direction: 54.4 at 9.3 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 3.2 neg: 1.5 tot: 4.7 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 163.8 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 97.6 neg: -20.6 tot: 77.1 m^2/s^2 ave: 25.7 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.47 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 9.2 stream: 4.4 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 1.01 Bulk Rich Number: 27.49 Bulk Shear: 64.89 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 126 16 159 16| 0.0 8.2 8.2| 5.4 -20.6 -15.1 -30.3 -0.40| 14.2 -5.7 1000 130 14 167 15| 5.7 4.1 9.8| 44.5 -20.6 23.9 23.9 0.20| 13.1 2.6 1500 135 11 180 13| 6.2 2.7 8.9| 79.9 -20.6 59.3 39.5 0.40| 12.8 5.2 2000 130 9 182 11| 5.1 2.0 7.2| 90.7 -20.6 70.1 35.0 0.46| 11.0 5.1 2500 113 9 176 9| 3.9 1.6 5.5| 94.2 -20.6 73.6 29.4 0.47| 9.8 4.6 3000 88 9 161 5| 3.2 1.5 4.7| 97.6 -20.6 77.1 25.7 0.47| 9.2 4.4 4000 48 11 21 2| 2.6 1.1 3.7|106.7 -22.8 83.9 21.0 0.44| 7.9 3.5 5000 31 13 352 6| 2.1 0.1 2.2|107.6 -66.2 41.4 8.3 0.22| 7.7 1.7 6000 24 12 337 6| 1.2 0.3 1.5|107.6 -87.4 20.2 3.4 0.10| 7.3 0.7 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VO243/skewt/VO243.skewt.20250501.12.gif