UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2020033012.upa.cvt Date: 1200Z 30 MAR 20 Searching for ZSQD... Searching the city database file for: ZSQD ... Date:1200Z 30 MAR 20 Station: ZSQD WMO ident: 54857 Latitude: 36.07 Longitude: 120.33 Elevation: 77.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1011 77 8.4 5.9 84 2.5 7.1 165 7 280.7 281.7 279.8 296.5 5.76 1 1000 166 7.4 4.9 84 2.5 6.2 165 9 280.5 281.5 279.3 295.5 5.43 2 925 806 7.2 -8.8 31 16.0 1.1 95 3 286.7 287.0 278.1 292.9 2.12 3 850 1495 2.6 -22.4 14 25.0 -4.1 35 1 288.9 289.0 277.3 291.2 0.74 4 700 3042 -6.9 -19.9 35 13.0 -10.4 170 5 294.8 295.0 280.6 298.4 1.12 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices Freezing level: 808.95 mb = 1918.39 m = 6293.85 ft Wetbulb zero: 908.80 mb = 950.01 m = 3116.80 ft Precipitable water: 0.24 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 32.67 % Est. max temperature: 16.29 C = 61.33 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 973.17 mb = 389.24 m = 1277.03 ft T: 7.33 C ThetaE index: 5.29 C Layer 1000.0- 700.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 733.11 mb = 2673.81 m = 8772.24 ft Mean mixing ratio: 3.70 g/kg Conv temperature: 21.21 C = 70.18 F Cap Strength: 5.97 C Lifted Index @700 mb: 5.97 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 14.18 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 5.33 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 385.49 J/kg Cap Strength: 5.94 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 844.55 mb = 1546.22 m = 5072.84 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 177 at 3 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 1011 77 165 7 -1.8 6.8 | 158 4 -1.7 4.1 1 1000 166 165 9 -2.3 8.7 | 160 6 -2.2 6.0 2 925 806 95 3 -3.0 0.3 | 50 4 -2.9 -2.4 3 850 1495 35 1 -0.6 -0.8 | 7 4 -0.4 -3.5 4 700 3042 170 5 -0.9 4.9 | 162 2 -0.7 2.3 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 147.2 at 3.6 knts Storm direction: 177.2 at 2.7 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 0.8 neg: 1.6 tot: 2.4 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 4.2 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 6.1 neg: -14.2 tot: -8.1 m^2/s^2 ave: -2.8 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: -0.20 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 3.9 stream: -0.8 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.00 Bulk Rich Number: 7.77 Bulk Shear: 1.83 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 500 152 7 139 5| 0.0 5.1 5.1| 0.1 -8.5 -8.4 -16.8 -0.73| 8.7 -6.4 1000 144 5 118 3| 0.0 3.8 3.8| 0.1 -12.7 -12.6 -12.6 -0.81| 6.5 -5.3 1500 136 4 95 3| 0.0 2.6 2.6| 0.2 -14.2 -13.9 -9.3 -0.81| 4.9 -4.0 2000 128 3 79 3| 0.5 2.0 2.5| 2.1 -14.2 -12.1 -6.0 -0.59| 4.2 -2.5 2500 130 3 79 3| 0.8 1.6 2.4| 4.3 -14.2 -9.8 -3.9 -0.37| 3.9 -1.5 3000 NO DATA | 0.8 1.6 2.4| | 4000 NO DATA | 0.8 1.6 2.4| | 5000 NO DATA | 0.8 1.6 2.4| | 6000 NO DATA | 0.8 1.6 2.4| | Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//ZSQD/skewt/ZSQD.skewt.20200330.12.gif