UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025120500.upa.cvt Date: 0000Z 5 DEC 25 Searching for VO243... Searching the city database file for: VO243 ... Date:0000Z 5 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 1012 19 24.2 23.0 93 1.2 23.3 60 2 296.3 299.5 296.1 347.5 17.74 1 1000 123 25.0 23.9 94 1.1 24.2 55 12 298.1 301.6 297.4 353.4 19.00 2 925 804 19.8 18.8 94 1.0 19.1 50 17 299.6 302.3 295.1 343.2 14.93 3 850 1530 16.8 7.8 55 9.0 11.4 45 16 303.7 305.2 290.9 327.2 7.83 4 700 3164 9.8 1.8 57 8.0 5.4 70 10 313.3 314.5 292.5 332.9 6.24 5 500 5870 -6.9 -14.9 53 8.0 -9.9 125 1 324.6 325.1 292.4 332.8 2.41 6 400 7580 -16.7 -30.7 29 14.0 -19.9 265 10 333.3 333.4 293.3 336.0 0.74 7 300 9670 -32.5 -34.6 81 2.1 -32.8 230 32 339.6 339.7 294.8 342.1 0.68 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5747.00 m Freezing level: 582.63 mb = 4751.95 m = 15590.20 ft Wetbulb zero: 630.01 mb = 4011.22 m = 13160.00 ft Precipitable water: 1.77 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 62.74 % Est. max temperature: 30.93 C = 87.68 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 994.86 mb = 167.98 m = 551.12 ft T: 24.66 C 700-500 lapse rate: 6.17 C/km ThetaE index: 26.20 C Layer 925.0- 700.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 940.38 mb = 659.95 m = 2165.16 ft Mean mixing ratio: 16.74 g/kg Conv temperature: 27.14 C = 80.85 F Cap Strength: 0.32 C Lifted Index: -3.11 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms possible Lifted Index @300 mb: -2.81 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.12 C Showalter Index: 5.68 C Risk: None Total Totals Index: 38.40 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 23.70 C Cross Totals Index: 14.70 C K Index: 23.50 Risk: 20-40 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 126.60 Risk: None Energy Index: 1.18 Risk: None Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 610.33 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 34.94 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 0.52 J/kg Cap Strength: 0.32 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 946.99 mb = 598.79 m = 1964.50 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 931.99 mb = 738.26 m = 2422.07 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 88 at 8 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 1012 19 60 2 -1.7 -1.0 | 277 6 5.9 -0.7 1 1000 123 55 12 -9.8 -6.9 | 18 7 -2.2 -6.6 2 979 305 55 16 -13.1 -9.2 | 32 10 -5.5 -8.9 3 946 610 55 17 -13.9 -9.8 | 34 11 -6.3 -9.5 4 925 804 50 17 -13.0 -10.9 | 27 12 -5.4 -10.7 5 913 914 50 17 -13.0 -10.9 | 27 12 -5.4 -10.7 6 881 1219 50 17 -13.0 -10.9 | 27 12 -5.4 -10.7 7 850 1530 45 16 -11.3 -11.3 | 18 12 -3.7 -11.0 8 820 1829 40 15 -9.6 -11.5 | 10 11 -2.0 -11.2 9 791 2134 40 13 -8.4 -10.0 | 4 10 -0.7 -9.7 10 763 2438 60 10 -8.7 -5.0 | 12 5 -1.0 -4.7 11 736 2743 60 10 -8.7 -5.0 | 12 5 -1.0 -4.7 12 710 3048 65 11 -10.0 -4.6 | 28 5 -2.3 -4.4 13 700 3164 70 10 -9.4 -3.4 | 29 4 -1.8 -3.1 14 658 3658 75 10 -9.7 -2.6 | 41 3 -2.0 -2.3 15 634 3962 60 10 -8.7 -5.0 | 12 5 -1.0 -4.7 16 610 4267 65 8 -7.3 -3.4 | 353 3 0.4 -3.1 17 588 4572 80 7 -6.9 -1.2 | 322 1 0.7 -0.9 18 566 4877 80 4 -3.9 -0.7 | 276 4 3.7 -0.4 19 524 5486 85 4 -4.0 -0.3 | 271 4 3.7 -0.1 20 500 5870 125 1 -0.8 0.6 | 263 7 6.8 0.9 21 485 6096 210 2 1.0 1.7 | 257 9 8.6 2.0 22 400 7580 265 10 10.0 0.9 | 266 18 17.6 1.1 23 398 7620 265 9 9.0 0.8 | 266 17 16.6 1.1 24 323 9144 225 16 11.3 11.3 | 239 22 19.0 11.6 25 300 9670 230 32 24.5 20.6 | 237 38 32.2 20.8 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 57.9 at 10.2 knts Storm direction: 87.9 at 7.6 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 1.0 neg: 2.0 tot: 3.1 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 109.6 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 19.6 neg: -17.3 tot: 2.3 m^2/s^2 ave: 0.8 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.34 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 5.0 stream: 1.7 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.06 Bulk Rich Number: 399.15 Bulk Shear: 1.53 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 55 14 25 8| 0.0 15.1 15.1| 15.8 0.0 15.8 31.6 0.83| 16.5 13.8 1000 53 15 27 10| 0.0 7.7 7.7| 15.9 -4.0 11.9 11.9 0.68| 9.1 6.2 1500 52 16 26 11| 0.0 4.8 4.8| 15.9 -9.2 6.7 4.5 0.54| 6.7 3.6 2000 49 16 23 11| 0.0 3.1 3.1| 15.9 -16.3 -0.4 -0.2 0.36| 5.8 2.1 2500 49 15 20 10| 1.1 2.4 3.6| 18.0 -17.3 0.7 0.3 0.31| 5.8 1.8 3000 51 14 20 9| 1.0 2.0 3.1| 19.6 -17.3 2.3 0.8 0.34| 5.0 1.7 4000 54 13 22 8| 1.0 1.7 2.6| 20.4 -19.4 1.0 0.2 0.26| 4.4 1.1 5000 56 12 19 7| 1.3 1.3 2.6| 20.4 -21.9 -1.5 -0.3 0.12| 4.2 0.5 6000 58 10 11 5| 1.4 1.1 2.5| 20.7 -24.4 -3.8 -0.6 0.07| 3.9 0.3 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VO243/skewt/VO243.skewt.20251205.00.gif