UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2020032100.upa.cvt Date: 0000Z 21 MAR 20 Searching for VKB4L5Q... Searching the city database file for: VKB4L5Q ... Date:0000Z 21 MAR 20 Station: VKB4L5Q WMO ident: 99999 Latitude: 46.80 Longitude: -44.90 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1037 30 0.0 -6.0 64 6.0 -2.0 220 13 270.3 270.7 269.1 276.7 2.35 1 1000 319 -2.9 -7.2 72 4.3 -4.3 215 9 270.2 270.6 268.8 276.3 2.22 2 925 931 -3.5 -34.5 7 31.0 -8.6 225 9 275.7 275.8 268.9 276.4 0.22 3 850 1600 -3.7 -13.7 46 10.0 -6.7 255 15 282.3 282.5 275.0 286.8 1.56 4 700 3126 -5.1 -19.1 32 14.0 -9.1 265 33 296.8 297.1 281.6 300.6 1.21 5 500 5690 -21.1 -25.3 69 4.2 -22.0 295 42 307.3 307.5 285.5 310.6 0.98 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5371.00 m Freezing level: 1037.00 mb = 29.86 m = 97.96 ft Wetbulb zero: Below ground Precipitable water: 0.27 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 44.43 % Est. max temperature: 8.72 C = 47.69 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 944.04 mb = 771.02 m = 2529.56 ft T: -3.34 C 700-500 lapse rate: 6.24 C/km ThetaE index: 0.41 C Layer 1000.0- 925.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 523.63 mb = 5338.08 m = 17513.16 ft Mean mixing ratio: 1.64 g/kg Conv temperature: 35.97 C = 96.74 F Cap Strength: 20.37 C Lifted Index: 25.76 C Risk: None Lifted Index @700 mb: 20.37 C Showalter Index: 17.49 C Risk: None Total Totals Index: 24.80 C Risk: None Vertical Totals Index: 17.40 C Cross Totals Index: 7.40 C K Index: -10.30 Risk: None Sweat Index: 72.00 Risk: None Energy Index: 5.02 Risk: None Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 15.10 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 5.50 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 3131.05 J/kg Cap Strength: 25.44 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 859.07 mb = 1516.05 m = 4973.86 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 302 at 20 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 1037 30 220 13 8.4 10.0 | 157 22 -8.6 20.5 1 1000 319 215 9 5.2 7.4 | 147 21 -11.8 17.9 2 925 931 225 9 6.4 6.4 | 148 20 -10.6 16.9 3 850 1600 255 15 14.5 3.9 | 170 15 -2.5 14.4 4 700 3126 265 33 32.9 2.9 | 230 21 15.9 13.4 5 500 5690 295 42 38.1 -17.7 | 289 22 21.1 -7.2 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 271.8 at 26.6 knts Storm direction: 301.8 at 19.9 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 4.5 neg: 0.7 tot: 5.2 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 70.1 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 103.6 neg: -23.2 tot: 80.3 m^2/s^2 ave: 26.8 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.61 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 5.4 stream: 3.3 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.01 Bulk Rich Number: 0.23 Bulk Shear: 65.44 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 217 10 150 21| 0.0 4.1 4.1| 1.0 -23.2 -22.2 -44.5 -0.83| 4.8 -4.0 1000 220 10 149 21| 1.0 2.1 3.1| 7.8 -23.2 -15.4 -15.4 -0.38| 3.5 -1.3 1500 229 10 152 20| 2.9 1.4 4.3| 31.5 -23.2 8.3 5.5 0.19| 4.6 0.9 2000 239 12 158 18| 3.7 1.0 4.7| 54.2 -23.2 31.0 15.5 0.43| 5.0 2.2 2500 246 14 166 17| 4.2 0.8 5.0| 78.0 -23.2 54.8 21.9 0.55| 5.2 2.9 3000 252 17 176 16| 4.5 0.7 5.2|103.6 -23.2 80.3 26.8 0.61| 5.4 3.3 4000 259 21 194 15| 4.1 0.5 4.7|147.2 -23.2 124.0 31.0 0.69| 5.1 3.5 5000 267 24 212 14| 3.8 0.4 4.3|193.1 -23.2 169.9 34.0 0.74| 5.0 3.7 6000 NO DATA | 3.7 0.4 4.1| | Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VKB4L5Q/skewt/VKB4L5Q.skewt.20200321.00.gif