UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025050212.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 2 MAY 25 Searching for VO243... Searching the city database file for: VO243 ... Date:1200Z 2 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 21 35.0 28.0 67 7.0 29.6 130 7 307.9 312.5 302.6 382.1 24.34 1 1000 48 33.4 22.4 53 11.0 25.3 135 21 306.5 309.8 298.4 358.6 17.30 2 925 745 28.6 20.6 62 8.0 22.8 145 12 308.6 311.7 298.5 359.3 16.74 3 850 1492 23.4 15.4 61 8.0 17.9 270 6 310.7 313.1 296.7 350.6 13.06 4 700 3154 12.0 2.0 50 10.0 6.3 25 15 315.8 317.0 293.3 335.8 6.33 5 500 5880 -3.9 -33.9 8 30.0 -11.3 300 16 328.3 328.4 291.7 329.9 0.43 6 400 7600 -13.9 -33.9 17 20.0 -18.3 280 27 336.9 337.0 294.1 339.0 0.54 7 300 9720 -28.5 -52.5 8 24.0 -30.8 260 31 345.2 345.2 295.7 345.6 0.10 8 250 11000 -38.9 -60.9 8 22.0 -40.0 245 37 348.2 348.2 296.3 348.4 0.04 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5832.00 m Freezing level: 549.06 mb = 5211.36 m = 17097.42 ft Wetbulb zero: 628.44 mb = 4027.66 m = 13213.95 ft Precipitable water: 1.84 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 43.63 % Est. max temperature: 37.69 C = 99.84 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 907.83 mb = 910.53 m = 2987.25 ft T: 27.45 C 700-500 lapse rate: 5.83 C/km ThetaE index: 29.40 C Layer 850.0- 400.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 774.71 mb = 2285.96 m = 7499.79 ft Mean mixing ratio: 16.94 g/kg Conv temperature: 40.27 C = 104.49 F Cap Strength: 3.15 C Lifted Index: -3.98 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms possible Lifted Index @300 mb: -4.82 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.97 C Showalter Index: -1.17 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 46.60 C Risk: Scattered moderate thunderstorms Vertical Totals Index: 27.30 C Cross Totals Index: 19.30 C K Index: 32.70 Risk: 60-80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 212.80 Risk: None Energy Index: -3.89 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms probable Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 1169.85 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 48.37 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 116.88 J/kg Cap Strength: 3.15 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 834.58 mb = 1648.73 m = 5409.16 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 729.58 mb = 2799.73 m = 9185.34 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 44 at 10 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 21 130 7 -5.4 4.5 | 189 12 1.8 11.8 1 1000 48 135 21 -14.8 14.8 | 161 23 -7.7 22.1 2 972 305 140 22 -14.1 16.9 | 164 25 -7.0 24.1 3 939 610 145 15 -8.6 12.3 | 176 20 -1.5 19.6 4 925 745 145 12 -6.9 9.8 | 181 17 0.2 17.1 5 907 914 150 8 -4.0 6.9 | 192 15 3.1 14.2 6 877 1219 220 5 3.2 3.8 | 223 15 10.3 11.1 7 850 1492 270 6 6.0 -0.0 | 241 15 13.1 7.3 8 817 1829 325 6 3.4 -4.9 | 257 11 10.6 2.4 9 789 2134 345 8 2.1 -7.7 | 273 9 9.2 -0.4 10 761 2438 355 4 0.3 -4.0 | 246 8 7.5 3.3 11 734 2743 30 6 -3.0 -5.2 | 243 5 4.1 2.1 12 709 3048 30 12 -6.0 -10.4 | 340 3 1.1 -3.1 13 700 3154 25 15 -6.3 -13.6 | 353 6 0.8 -6.3 14 658 3658 25 20 -8.5 -18.1 | 7 11 -1.3 -10.8 15 634 3962 40 18 -11.6 -13.8 | 34 8 -4.4 -6.5 16 610 4267 30 19 -9.5 -16.5 | 14 9 -2.4 -9.2 17 588 4572 15 19 -4.9 -18.4 | 349 11 2.2 -11.1 18 566 4877 360 16 -0.0 -16.0 | 321 11 7.1 -8.7 19 525 5486 325 18 10.3 -14.7 | 293 19 17.5 -7.5 20 500 5880 300 16 13.9 -8.0 | 272 21 21.0 -0.7 21 486 6096 295 16 14.5 -6.8 | 269 22 21.6 0.5 22 400 7600 280 27 26.6 -4.7 | 266 34 33.7 2.6 23 399 7620 280 26 25.6 -4.5 | 265 33 32.7 2.8 24 324 9144 270 25 25.0 -0.0 | 257 33 32.1 7.3 25 300 9720 260 31 30.5 5.4 | 251 40 37.7 12.7 26 262 10668 250 39 36.6 13.3 | 245 48 43.8 20.6 27 250 11000 245 37 33.5 15.6 | 241 47 40.7 22.9 28 209 12192 230 34 26.0 21.9 | 229 44 33.2 29.1 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 14.4 at 13.6 knts Storm direction: 44.4 at 10.2 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 2.5 neg: 0.0 tot: 2.5 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 143.6 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 131.3 neg: -42.6 tot: 88.8 m^2/s^2 ave: 29.6 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.34 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 11.1 stream: 3.8 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.92 Bulk Rich Number: 9.74 Bulk Shear: 120.13 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 139 20 165 23| 10.7 0.0 10.7| 25.9 -34.2 -8.2 -16.4 -0.20| 21.5 -4.3 1000 142 16 173 20| 2.7 0.0 2.7| 67.3 -34.2 33.1 33.1 0.15| 17.1 2.7 1500 150 12 183 18| 4.3 0.0 4.3|109.0 -34.2 74.9 49.9 0.35| 15.0 5.3 2000 153 11 187 17| 3.6 0.0 3.6|125.4 -34.2 91.2 45.6 0.40| 13.1 5.3 2500 149 10 187 16| 2.1 0.0 2.1|127.7 -42.1 85.6 34.2 0.31| 11.7 3.7 3000 128 9 179 13| 2.5 0.0 2.5|131.3 -42.6 88.8 29.6 0.34| 11.1 3.8 4000 55 12 107 2| 1.6 0.9 2.5|146.9 -42.6 104.3 26.1 0.38| 10.0 3.8 5000 37 13 11 3| 1.3 1.5 2.8|146.9 -81.8 65.1 13.0 0.17| 9.6 1.6 6000 14 14 327 7| 1.1 2.0 3.1|146.9-149.7 -2.9 -0.5 0.02| 9.4 0.1 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VO243/skewt/VO243.skewt.20250502.12.gif