UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2020032023.upa.cvt Date: 2300Z 20 MAR 20 Searching for VO086... Searching the city database file for: VO086 ... Date:2300Z 20 MAR 20 Station: VO086 WMO ident: 43086 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 86 20 4 SFC 992 157 25.8 21.0 75 4.8 22.4 20 4 299.6 302.6 295.8 346.3 15.98 2 925 769 20.6 17.9 85 2.7 18.8 170 26 300.4 303.0 294.7 341.7 14.09 3 850 1498 18.6 14.4 77 4.2 15.8 210 24 305.6 307.9 294.8 342.3 12.23 4 700 3141 7.2 4.2 81 3.0 5.5 260 14 310.5 311.9 292.6 333.3 7.41 5 500 5830 -8.1 -25.1 24 17.0 -12.9 300 42 323.2 323.4 290.7 326.7 1.00 6 400 7520 -20.7 -34.7 27 14.0 -23.2 290 52 328.1 328.2 291.7 329.9 0.50 7 300 9570 -35.1 -49.1 23 14.0 -36.2 290 77 335.9 335.9 293.4 336.5 0.15 8 250 10830 -39.7 -55.7 17 16.0 -40.6 305 92 347.0 347.1 296.1 347.4 0.08 9 200 12320 -49.7 -73.7 4 24.0 -50.2 290 84 354.1 354.1 297.5 354.1 0.01 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5744.00 m Freezing level: 605.88 mb = 4406.41 m = 14456.56 ft Wetbulb zero: 640.36 mb = 3852.67 m = 12639.83 ft Precipitable water: 1.75 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 66.28 % Est. max temperature: 32.02 C = 89.64 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 925.15 mb = 767.60 m = 2518.33 ft T: 20.61 C 700-500 lapse rate: 5.69 C/km ThetaE index: 15.60 C Layer 700.0- 400.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 820.70 mb = 1794.82 m = 5888.43 ft Mean mixing ratio: 14.57 g/kg Conv temperature: 32.68 C = 90.83 F Cap Strength: 2.53 C Lifted Index: -2.61 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms possible Lifted Index @300 mb: -2.95 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -1.49 C Showalter Index: -2.23 C Risk: Severe thunderstorms possible Total Totals Index: 49.20 C Risk: Scattered heavy thunderstorms Vertical Totals Index: 26.70 C Cross Totals Index: 22.50 C K Index: 38.10 Risk: > 80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 416.80 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms possible Energy Index: -3.04 Risk: Severe Thunderstorms probable Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 830.27 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 40.75 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 83.89 J/kg Cap Strength: 2.47 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 894.46 mb = 1058.50 m = 3472.72 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 749.46 mb = 2563.31 m = 8409.71 ft Equ Level (EL): 269.46 mb = 10312.09 m = 33831.92 ft B at Equ Level: 822.09 J/kg Wind level data Storm motion: 289 at 19 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 992 157 20 4 -1.4 -3.8 | 97 19 -18.9 2.3 1 975 305 170 12 -2.1 11.8 | 132 27 -19.6 17.9 2 942 610 165 23 -6.0 22.2 | 140 37 -23.5 28.3 3 925 769 170 26 -4.5 25.6 | 145 39 -22.0 31.7 4 910 914 175 25 -2.2 24.9 | 148 37 -19.7 31.0 5 878 1219 200 26 8.9 24.4 | 164 32 -8.6 30.5 6 850 1498 210 24 12.0 20.8 | 168 27 -5.5 26.9 7 817 1829 230 22 16.9 14.1 | 178 20 -0.7 20.2 8 788 2134 240 17 14.7 8.5 | 169 15 -2.8 14.6 9 761 2438 240 14 12.1 7.0 | 158 14 -5.4 13.1 10 734 2743 245 13 11.8 5.5 | 154 13 -5.8 11.6 11 708 3048 250 12 11.3 4.1 | 148 12 -6.3 10.2 12 700 3141 260 14 13.8 2.4 | 156 9 -3.7 8.5 13 656 3658 265 19 18.9 1.7 | 190 8 1.4 7.7 14 632 3962 250 23 21.6 7.9 | 196 15 4.1 14.0 15 608 4267 270 28 28.0 -0.0 | 240 12 10.5 6.1 16 585 4572 280 28 27.6 -4.9 | 263 10 10.0 1.2 17 563 4877 280 33 32.5 -5.7 | 269 15 15.0 0.4 18 522 5486 295 40 36.3 -16.9 | 300 22 18.7 -10.8 19 500 5830 300 42 36.4 -21.0 | 308 24 18.8 -14.9 20 483 6096 295 43 39.0 -18.2 | 299 25 21.4 -12.1 21 464 6401 290 41 38.5 -14.0 | 291 22 21.0 -7.9 22 445 6706 285 41 39.6 -10.6 | 282 23 22.1 -4.5 23 428 7010 285 40 38.6 -10.4 | 281 22 21.1 -4.3 24 411 7315 280 42 41.4 -7.3 | 273 24 23.8 -1.2 25 400 7520 290 52 48.9 -17.8 | 290 33 31.3 -11.7 26 378 7925 290 52 48.9 -17.8 | 290 33 31.3 -11.7 27 362 8230 290 55 51.7 -18.8 | 290 36 34.2 -12.7 28 300 9570 290 77 72.4 -26.3 | 290 58 54.8 -20.2 29 292 9754 290 80 75.2 -27.4 | 290 61 57.6 -21.3 30 256 10668 300 89 77.1 -44.5 | 303 71 59.5 -38.4 31 250 10830 305 92 75.4 -52.8 | 309 74 57.8 -46.7 32 245 10973 305 91 74.5 -52.2 | 309 73 57.0 -46.1 33 234 11278 300 91 78.8 -45.5 | 303 73 61.3 -39.4 34 213 11887 295 90 81.6 -38.0 | 297 72 64.0 -31.9 35 204 12192 295 87 78.8 -36.8 | 297 69 61.3 -30.7 36 200 12320 290 84 78.9 -28.7 | 290 65 61.4 -22.6 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 259.2 at 24.7 knts Storm direction: 289.2 at 18.6 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 2.8 neg: 0.0 tot: 2.8 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 60.1 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 325.1 neg: -28.8 tot: 296.2 m^2/s^2 ave: 98.7 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.47 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 12.9 stream: 6.0 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 1.67 Bulk Rich Number: 7.04 Bulk Shear: 117.88 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 166 15 134 30| 28.1 0.0 28.1|150.5 0.0 150.5 301.1 0.67| 32.3 21.8 1000 173 20 143 33| 15.3 0.0 15.3|262.4 0.0 262.4 262.4 0.73| 23.2 17.0 1500 186 22 151 32| 9.2 0.0 9.2|311.0 0.0 311.0 207.4 0.70| 19.3 13.5 2000 197 21 157 29| 5.1 0.0 5.1|321.1 -12.1 309.0 154.5 0.58| 17.1 9.8 2500 204 20 159 26| 3.4 0.0 3.4|321.1 -24.7 296.4 118.6 0.50| 14.5 7.2 3000 209 19 160 24| 2.8 0.0 2.8|325.1 -28.8 296.2 98.7 0.47| 12.9 6.0 4000 224 19 167 20| 2.7 0.9 3.6|359.7 -28.8 330.8 82.7 0.50| 12.0 6.0 5000 241 21 184 16| 3.1 0.7 3.8|408.2 -28.8 379.4 75.9 0.55| 11.5 6.3 6000 259 25 212 13| 3.0 0.9 3.9|453.2 -55.3 397.9 66.3 0.51| 10.9 5.6 Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//VO086/skewt/VO086.skewt.20200320.23.gif