UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2020032012.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 20 MAR 20 Searching for ZSAM... Searching the city database file for: ZSAM ... Date:1200Z 20 MAR 20 Station: ZSAM WMO ident: 59134 Latitude: 24.48 Longitude: 118.08 Elevation: 139.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1000 139 18.4 14.1 76 4.3 15.7 115 5 291.5 293.4 288.8 320.3 10.16 1 925 806 15.6 12.5 82 3.1 13.7 160 3 295.3 297.0 289.9 323.7 9.89 2 850 1522 13.4 12.7 96 0.7 13.0 270 15 300.2 302.2 292.3 332.2 10.92 3 700 3142 7.6 -7.4 34 15.0 0.8 285 21 310.9 311.5 289.0 320.9 3.13 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices Precipitable water: 1.02 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 73.41 % Est. max temperature: 27.03 C = 80.66 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 938.21 mb = 684.66 m = 2246.22 ft T: 16.11 C ThetaE index: 11.37 C Layer 700.0-16203854643200.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 744.82 mb = 2624.12 m = 8609.20 ft Mean mixing ratio: 10.03 g/kg Conv temperature: 34.30 C = 93.73 F Cap Strength: 6.00 C Lifted Index @700 mb: 6.00 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 15.81 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 5.62 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 323.65 J/kg Cap Strength: 6.00 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 901.37 mb = 1025.17 m = 3363.37 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 303 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 1000 139 115 5 -4.5 2.1 | 120 15 -12.6 7.4 1 1000 141 115 5 -4.5 2.1 | 120 15 -12.6 7.4 2 925 806 160 3 -1.0 2.8 | 132 12 -9.1 8.1 3 850 1522 270 15 15.0 -0.0 | 233 9 7.0 5.3 4 700 3142 285 21 20.3 -5.4 | 271 12 12.3 -0.2 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 273.3 at 12.8 knts Storm direction: 303.3 at 9.6 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 4.4 neg: 0.0 tot: 4.4 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 150.3 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 90.9 neg: 0.0 tot: 90.9 m^2/s^2 ave: 30.3 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.92 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 5.6 stream: 5.1 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.01 Bulk Rich Number: 0.44 Bulk Shear: 35.81 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 129 4 125 14| 2.9 0.0 2.9| 8.5 0.0 8.5 17.0 0.79| 3.0 2.4 1000 159 5 135 14| 5.3 0.0 5.3| 35.3 0.0 35.3 35.3 0.91| 5.7 5.2 1500 241 7 169 9| 6.9 0.0 6.9| 73.6 0.0 73.6 49.1 0.93| 8.7 8.1 2000 260 9 191 7| 5.7 0.0 5.7| 78.8 0.0 78.8 39.4 0.93| 7.1 6.6 2500 268 11 210 7| 4.9 0.0 4.9| 84.5 0.0 84.5 33.8 0.93| 6.2 5.7 3000 273 13 226 7| 4.4 0.0 4.4| 90.9 0.0 90.9 30.3 0.92| 5.6 5.1 4000 NO DATA | 4.4 0.0 4.4| | 5000 NO DATA | 4.4 0.0 4.4| | 6000 NO DATA | 4.4 0.0 4.4| | Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//ZSAM/skewt/ZSAM.skewt.20200320.12.gif