UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025050312.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 3 MAY 25 Searching for VO243... Searching the city database file for: VO243 ... Date:1200Z 3 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 1002 19 35.4 28.4 67 7.0 29.9 140 3 308.4 313.1 303.0 384.7 24.96 1 1000 37 36.2 23.2 47 13.0 26.4 125 8 309.4 312.8 299.6 364.7 18.19 2 925 741 30.4 17.4 46 13.0 21.2 260 2 310.4 313.0 297.1 352.0 13.64 3 850 1489 23.4 14.4 57 9.0 17.2 270 8 310.7 313.0 296.2 348.0 12.23 4 700 3151 12.6 -3.4 33 16.0 4.4 35 11 316.4 317.3 291.7 330.1 4.25 5 500 5870 -5.1 -12.1 58 7.0 -8.0 250 18 326.8 327.4 293.6 337.1 3.02 6 400 7600 -14.5 -21.5 55 7.0 -16.7 255 26 336.1 336.5 294.8 342.3 1.72 7 300 9720 -28.9 -37.9 42 9.0 -30.3 245 24 344.6 344.8 295.8 346.6 0.49 8 250 11000 -38.7 -55.7 15 17.0 -39.8 250 28 348.5 348.5 296.4 348.9 0.08 9 200 12490 -49.9 -69.9 8 20.0 -50.4 250 31 353.8 353.8 297.4 353.8 0.02 10 150 14310 -63.9 -92.9 1 29.0 -64.0 215 12 360.0 360.0 298.7 360.0 0.00 11 100 16710 -75.7 -101.7 1 26.0 -75.7 20 12 381.5 381.5 302.5 381.5 0.00 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5833.00 m Freezing level: 557.63 mb = 5086.56 m = 16687.98 ft Wetbulb zero: 629.54 mb = 4008.33 m = 13150.55 ft Precipitable water: 1.79 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 46.04 % Est. max temperature: 37.68 C = 99.83 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 907.02 mb = 914.68 m = 3000.89 ft T: 28.77 C 700-500 lapse rate: 6.51 C/km ThetaE index: 54.66 C Layer 1000.0- 500.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 741.89 mb = 2653.43 m = 8705.36 ft Mean mixing ratio: 15.43 g/kg Conv temperature: 41.77 C = 107.19 F Cap Strength: 2.61 C Lifted Index: -4.53 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -4.19 C Lifted Index @700 mb: 0.16 C Showalter Index: -1.43 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 48.00 C Risk: Scattered moderate thunderstorms Vertical Totals Index: 28.50 C Cross Totals Index: 19.50 C K Index: 26.90 Risk: 40-60 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 206.80 Risk: None Energy Index: -2.14 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms probable Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 1282.26 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 50.64 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 94.57 J/kg Cap Strength: 2.61 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 792.58 mb = 2087.67 m = 6849.22 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 687.58 mb = 3295.61 m = 10812.24 ft Equ Level (EL): 167.58 mb = 13608.69 m = 44647.39 ft B at Equ Level: 1271.85 J/kg Wind level data Storm motion: 352 at 6 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 1002 19 140 3 -1.9 2.3 | 162 9 -2.8 8.5 1 1000 37 125 8 -6.6 4.6 | 146 13 -7.4 10.8 2 971 305 115 11 -10.0 4.6 | 135 15 -10.8 10.9 3 939 610 135 2 -1.4 1.4 | 163 8 -2.3 7.7 4 925 741 260 2 2.0 0.3 | 190 7 1.1 6.6 5 907 914 270 3 3.0 -0.0 | 199 7 2.1 6.2 6 876 1219 270 6 6.0 -0.0 | 219 8 5.1 6.2 7 850 1489 270 8 8.0 -0.0 | 229 9 7.1 6.2 8 817 1829 265 12 12.0 1.0 | 237 13 11.1 7.3 9 788 2134 275 9 9.0 -0.8 | 236 10 8.1 5.5 10 761 2438 310 5 3.8 -3.2 | 224 4 3.0 3.0 11 734 2743 350 6 1.0 -5.9 | 208 0 0.2 0.3 12 708 3048 25 9 -3.8 -8.2 | 68 5 -4.7 -1.9 13 700 3151 35 11 -6.3 -9.0 | 69 8 -7.2 -2.8 14 657 3658 35 15 -8.6 -12.3 | 57 11 -9.5 -6.0 15 633 3962 30 10 -5.0 -8.7 | 68 6 -5.9 -2.4 16 610 4267 40 7 -4.5 -5.4 | 99 5 -5.4 0.9 17 587 4572 40 4 -2.6 -3.1 | 133 5 -3.4 3.2 18 565 4877 285 6 5.8 -1.6 | 226 7 4.9 4.7 19 524 5486 280 7 6.9 -1.2 | 230 8 6.0 5.0 20 500 5870 250 18 16.9 6.2 | 232 20 16.0 12.4 21 486 6096 250 20 18.8 6.8 | 234 22 17.9 13.1 22 400 7600 255 26 25.1 6.7 | 242 28 24.2 13.0 23 399 7620 255 25 24.1 6.5 | 241 27 23.3 12.7 24 324 9144 240 20 17.3 10.0 | 225 23 16.5 16.2 25 300 9720 245 24 21.8 10.1 | 232 27 20.9 16.4 26 262 10668 255 27 26.1 7.0 | 242 28 25.2 13.2 27 250 11000 250 28 26.3 9.6 | 238 30 25.4 15.8 28 209 12192 255 32 30.9 8.3 | 244 33 30.0 14.5 29 200 12490 250 31 29.1 10.6 | 239 33 28.3 16.8 30 165 13716 260 24 23.6 4.2 | 245 25 22.8 10.4 31 150 14310 215 12 6.9 9.8 | 201 17 6.0 16.1 32 128 15240 275 7 7.0 -0.6 | 227 8 6.1 5.6 33 100 16710 20 12 -4.1 -11.3 | 45 7 -5.0 -5.0 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 322.1 at 8.4 knts Storm direction: 352.1 at 6.3 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 2.0 neg: 0.5 tot: 2.5 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): -96.3 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 39.8 neg: -18.8 tot: 21.0 m^2/s^2 ave: 7.0 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.15 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 8.5 stream: 1.3 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.31 Bulk Rich Number: 34.67 Bulk Shear: 36.99 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 119 9 141 13| 0.0 1.9 1.9| 12.9 -16.9 -4.0 -8.0 -0.11| 14.7 -1.6 1000 127 6 151 11| 4.2 0.9 5.2| 27.3 -16.9 10.4 10.4 0.24| 11.7 2.9 1500 181 6 176 12| 2.8 0.9 3.7| 34.3 -16.9 17.5 11.6 0.32| 9.3 3.0 2000 245 7 211 11| 2.6 0.7 3.3| 38.6 -16.9 21.6 10.8 0.31| 8.5 2.6 2500 260 7 219 10| 1.6 0.6 2.1| 39.3 -18.8 20.5 8.2 0.23| 8.4 1.9 3000 279 7 230 8| 2.0 0.5 2.5| 39.8 -18.8 21.0 7.0 0.15| 8.5 1.3 4000 352 8 353 2| 2.2 0.9 3.1| 44.0 -22.7 21.3 5.3 0.13| 7.9 1.1 5000 358 8 18 2| 1.2 1.6 2.8| 53.9 -23.4 30.5 6.1 0.23| 8.0 1.8 6000 322 8 275 4| 1.0 2.6 3.6| 59.0 -30.3 28.7 4.8 0.20| 7.9 1.6 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VO243/skewt/VO243.skewt.20250503.12.gif