UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2025042812.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 28 APR 25 Searching for VT381... Searching the city database file for: VT381 ... Date:1200Z 28 APR 25 Station: VT381 WMO ident: 48381 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 1000 68 SFC 986 192 26.4 22.7 80 3.7 23.7 300 3 300.8 304.0 297.4 353.3 17.89 2 984 210 27.2 17.2 54 10.0 20.4 310 3 301.7 304.1 294.1 339.0 12.64 3 977 274 29.6 14.6 40 15.0 19.5 347 4 304.8 306.8 293.6 336.9 10.75 4 975 292 30.0 15.0 40 15.0 19.9 358 5 305.4 307.4 294.0 338.5 11.06 5 951 514 29.8 17.8 49 12.0 21.3 53 4 307.3 309.9 296.3 348.4 13.61 6 925 761 28.2 17.2 51 11.0 20.5 65 4 308.1 310.7 296.4 348.9 13.47 7 850 1505 22.2 14.2 60 8.0 16.8 85 10 309.4 311.7 295.8 346.1 12.07 8 811 1911 18.6 12.6 68 6.0 14.6 106 7 309.8 311.9 295.4 344.5 11.38 9 744 2646 13.2 7.2 67 6.0 9.5 115 9 311.6 313.3 293.9 338.2 8.60 10 700 3157 10.0 2.0 57 8.0 5.5 115 9 313.6 314.8 292.6 333.4 6.33 11 613 4243 2.6 -2.4 70 5.0 0.0 317.2 318.2 292.8 333.9 5.24 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices Precipitable water: 1.46 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 60.66 % Est. max temperature: 35.14 C = 95.25 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 934.61 mb = 669.10 m = 2195.18 ft T: 28.80 C ThetaE index: 16.41 C Layer 984.0- 975.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 744.26 mb = 2642.72 m = 8670.24 ft Mean mixing ratio: 12.94 g/kg Conv temperature: 37.21 C = 98.98 F Cap Strength: 2.87 C Lifted Index @700 mb: 0.43 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 39.86 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 8.93 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 143.44 J/kg Cap Strength: 2.87 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 791.25 mb = 2121.37 m = 6959.79 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 676.25 mb = 3439.58 m = 11284.58 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 129 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 986 192 300 3 2.6 -1.5 | 306 9 7.0 -5.0 1 974 305 5 5 -0.4 -5.0 | 335 9 4.0 -8.5 2 941 610 75 4 -3.9 -1.0 | 353 5 0.5 -4.6 3 925 761 65 4 -3.6 -1.7 | 352 5 0.8 -5.2 4 909 914 75 6 -5.8 -1.6 | 15 5 -1.4 -5.1 5 878 1219 80 9 -8.9 -1.6 | 41 7 -4.5 -5.1 6 850 1505 85 10 -10.0 -0.9 | 52 7 -5.6 -4.4 7 818 1829 105 7 -6.8 1.8 | 54 3 -2.4 -1.7 8 789 2134 110 8 -7.5 2.7 | 76 3 -3.1 -0.8 9 762 2438 115 8 -7.3 3.4 | 87 3 -2.9 -0.2 10 735 2743 115 9 -8.2 3.8 | 94 4 -3.8 0.3 11 700 3157 115 9 -8.2 3.8 | 94 4 -3.8 0.3 12 658 3658 110 7 -6.6 2.4 | 62 2 -2.2 -1.1 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 98.9 at 7.5 knts Storm direction: 128.9 at 5.6 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 2.0 neg: 0.0 tot: 2.0 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 146.6 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 27.5 neg: -0.2 tot: 27.3 m^2/s^2 ave: 9.1 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.66 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 4.0 stream: 2.6 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.01 Bulk Rich Number: 6.00 Bulk Shear: 6.64 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 32 4 343 8| 6.5 0.0 6.5| 15.7 -0.1 15.6 31.3 0.70| 10.3 7.2 1000 60 5 2 6| 5.8 0.0 5.8| 22.4 -0.1 22.3 22.3 0.77| 7.7 5.9 1500 73 7 20 6| 3.8 0.0 3.8| 25.8 -0.1 25.7 17.1 0.71| 6.5 4.6 2000 83 7 29 5| 2.8 0.0 2.8| 26.8 -0.1 26.6 13.3 0.67| 5.6 3.8 2500 91 7 39 4| 2.4 0.0 2.4| 27.5 -0.1 27.3 10.9 0.67| 4.8 3.2 3000 96 7 48 4| 2.0 0.0 2.0| 27.5 -0.2 27.3 9.1 0.66| 4.0 2.6 4000 NO DATA | 2.0 0.0 2.0| | 5000 NO DATA | 2.0 0.0 2.0| | 6000 NO DATA | 2.0 0.0 2.0| | Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VT381/skewt/VT381.skewt.20250428.12.gif