UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025120112.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 1 DEC 25 Searching for VO243... Searching the city database file for: VO243 ... Date:1200Z 1 DEC 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 1007 16 24.6 23.4 93 1.2 23.8 10 5 297.2 300.5 296.7 350.1 18.28 1 1000 77 24.2 23.4 95 0.8 23.6 25 13 297.4 300.7 296.8 350.7 18.41 2 925 756 19.4 19.4 100 0.0 19.4 50 29 299.1 302.0 295.4 344.4 15.51 3 850 1483 16.6 16.6 100 0.0 16.6 55 24 303.5 306.1 295.6 345.5 14.12 4 700 3120 9.8 8.3 90 1.5 8.9 335 7 313.3 315.2 295.3 343.9 9.87 5 500 5850 -4.3 -4.3 100 0.0 -4.3 115 10 327.8 328.9 295.8 346.3 5.57 6 400 7570 -16.5 -19.4 78 2.9 -17.4 310 13 333.5 334.0 294.5 340.8 2.06 7 300 9680 -30.3 -35.3 62 5.0 -31.1 230 30 342.7 342.8 295.6 345.1 0.63 8 250 10950 -38.7 -50.7 27 12.0 -39.6 215 30 348.5 348.6 296.4 349.1 0.15 9 200 12440 -53.1 -63.1 29 10.0 -53.4 215 42 348.7 348.7 296.4 348.9 0.04 10 150 14230 -67.7 -75.7 31 8.0 -67.8 175 32 353.5 353.5 297.4 353.5 0.01 11 100 16570 -82.9 -92.9 16 10.0 -82.9 245 20 367.6 367.6 300.1 367.6 0.00 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5773.00 m Freezing level: 560.99 mb = 5017.45 m = 16461.24 ft Wetbulb zero: 565.48 mb = 4851.52 m = 15916.85 ft Precipitable water: 2.52 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 96.03 % Est. max temperature: 30.56 C = 87.01 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 989.98 mb = 164.75 m = 540.52 ft T: 23.58 C 700-500 lapse rate: 5.16 C/km ThetaE index: 6.36 C Layer 925.0- 850.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 950.63 mb = 517.92 m = 1699.18 ft Mean mixing ratio: 16.75 g/kg Conv temperature: 25.97 C = 78.74 F Cap Strength: 0.04 C Lifted Index: -0.34 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: -0.38 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.00 C Showalter Index: 0.31 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 41.80 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 20.90 C Cross Totals Index: 20.90 C K Index: 36.00 Risk: > 80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 257.20 Risk: None Energy Index: 0.04 Risk: None Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 280.79 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 23.70 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 0.00 J/kg Cap Strength: 0.04 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 952.10 mb = 504.52 m = 1655.23 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 947.10 mb = 550.38 m = 1805.69 ft Equ Level (EL): 287.10 mb = 9986.20 m = 32762.73 ft B at Equ Level: 279.42 J/kg Max Parcel Lev (MPL): 157.10 mb = 13942.32 m = 45741.95 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 88 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 1007 16 10 5 -0.9 -4.9 | 298 10 8.8 -4.6 1 1000 77 25 13 -5.5 -11.8 | 340 12 4.2 -11.5 2 974 305 35 27 -15.5 -22.1 | 15 23 -5.8 -21.8 3 941 610 45 30 -21.2 -21.2 | 29 24 -11.5 -20.9 4 925 756 50 29 -22.2 -18.6 | 34 22 -12.5 -18.3 5 908 914 50 29 -22.2 -18.6 | 34 22 -12.5 -18.3 6 876 1219 50 27 -20.7 -17.4 | 33 20 -11.0 -17.1 7 850 1483 55 24 -19.7 -13.8 | 36 17 -10.0 -13.5 8 816 1829 70 21 -19.7 -7.2 | 56 12 -10.0 -6.9 9 787 2134 75 19 -18.4 -4.9 | 62 10 -8.7 -4.6 10 759 2438 65 14 -12.7 -5.9 | 28 6 -3.0 -5.6 11 732 2743 25 7 -3.0 -6.3 | 312 9 6.7 -6.1 12 706 3048 340 7 2.4 -6.6 | 297 14 12.1 -6.3 13 700 3120 335 7 3.0 -6.3 | 296 14 12.7 -6.1 14 655 3658 305 3 2.5 -1.7 | 277 12 12.2 -1.4 15 631 3962 230 2 1.5 1.3 | 262 11 11.2 1.6 16 608 4267 250 1 0.9 0.3 | 267 11 10.6 0.6 17 585 4572 160 4 -1.4 3.8 | 244 9 8.3 4.1 18 564 4877 130 7 -5.4 4.5 | 222 6 4.3 4.8 19 523 5486 105 9 -8.7 2.3 | 201 3 1.0 2.6 20 500 5850 115 10 -9.1 4.2 | 188 5 0.6 4.5 21 484 6096 115 8 -7.3 3.4 | 214 4 2.4 3.7 22 400 7570 310 13 10.0 -8.4 | 292 21 19.7 -8.1 23 397 7620 310 14 10.7 -9.0 | 293 22 20.4 -8.7 24 323 9144 250 22 20.7 7.5 | 256 31 30.4 7.8 25 300 9680 230 30 23.0 19.3 | 239 38 32.7 19.6 26 260 10668 225 33 23.3 23.3 | 234 41 33.0 23.6 27 250 10950 215 30 17.2 24.6 | 227 37 26.9 24.9 28 208 12192 210 37 18.5 32.0 | 221 43 28.2 32.3 29 200 12440 215 42 24.1 34.4 | 224 48 33.8 34.7 30 163 13716 200 23 7.9 21.6 | 219 28 17.6 21.9 31 150 14230 175 32 -2.8 31.9 | 192 33 6.9 32.2 32 126 15240 175 30 -2.6 29.9 | 193 31 7.1 30.2 33 100 16570 245 20 18.1 8.5 | 253 29 27.8 8.7 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 58.3 at 12.9 knts Storm direction: 88.3 at 9.7 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 3.1 neg: 3.6 tot: 6.7 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 1.5 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 141.4 neg: -39.4 tot: 101.9 m^2/s^2 ave: 34.0 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.24 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 11.5 stream: 2.8 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.25 Bulk Rich Number: 16.33 Bulk Shear: 17.19 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 35 22 9 18| 25.7 0.0 25.7| 89.4 0.0 89.4 178.9 0.83| 27.9 23.2 1000 42 26 22 20| 12.7 0.0 12.7|113.9 -1.1 112.8 112.8 0.81| 16.6 13.5 1500 46 26 26 20| 7.1 0.0 7.1|121.9 -3.1 118.8 79.2 0.73| 13.0 9.5 2000 50 25 31 18| 4.6 0.0 4.6|140.3 -3.1 137.2 68.6 0.72| 11.7 8.4 2500 53 23 33 16| 3.7 1.9 5.6|141.4 -17.7 123.7 49.5 0.46| 11.4 5.3 3000 52 21 27 14| 3.1 3.6 6.7|141.4 -39.4 101.9 34.0 0.24| 11.5 2.8 4000 48 16 13 11| 2.3 2.8 5.1|141.4 -67.5 73.9 18.5 0.10| 9.8 1.0 5000 51 14 7 8| 1.9 1.7 3.5|143.1 -86.0 57.1 11.4 0.01| 9.0 0.1 6000 58 13 11 7| 1.5 1.1 2.6|144.6 -88.1 56.5 9.4 0.00| 8.0 0.0 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VO243/skewt/VO243.skewt.20251201.12.gif