UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/upa/2020032000.upa.cvt Date: 0000Z 20 MAR 20 Searching for ZWHM... Searching the city database file for: ZWHM ... Date:0000Z 20 MAR 20 Station: ZWHM WMO ident: 52203 Latitude: 42.82 Longitude: 93.52 Elevation: 739.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 924 739 6.8 -6.2 39 13.0 1.6 35 3 286.4 286.8 278.6 293.9 2.60 1 850 1434 10.6 -6.4 30 17.0 3.2 340 3 297.3 297.8 283.7 305.7 2.78 2 700 3010 -2.5 -15.5 36 13.0 -6.7 265 19 299.7 300.0 283.3 304.8 1.63 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices Freezing level: 728.63 mb = 2709.24 m = 8888.46 ft Wetbulb zero: 801.91 mb = 1906.71 m = 6255.52 ft Precipitable water: 0.21 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 33.30 % Est. max temperature: 18.70 C = 65.66 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 756.08 mb = 2384.49 m = 7823.03 ft T: 2.70 C ThetaE index: 0.84 C Layer 700.0- 0.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): None Cap Strength: -9989.39 C Lifted Index @700 mb: 5.76 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 134650.61 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 518.94 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 264.50 J/kg Cap Strength: 5.76 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 687.58 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft Wind level data Storm motion: 310 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- 0 924 739 35 3 -1.7 -2.5 | 104 7 -6.7 1.7 1 850 1434 340 3 1.0 -2.8 | 109 4 -3.9 1.3 2 700 3010 265 19 18.9 1.7 | 248 15 14.0 5.8 Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 279.9 at 8.6 knts Storm direction: 309.9 at 6.4 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 0.0 neg: 4.6 tot: 4.6 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 143.4 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 0.6 neg: -20.8 tot: -20.2 m^2/s^2 ave: -9.2 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: -0.55 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 5.5 stream: -3.0 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.50 Bulk Rich Number: 11470.75 Bulk Shear: 11.74 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 16 3 102 6| 0.0 2.1 2.1| 0.2 -0.4 -0.2 -0.4 -0.04| 2.1 -0.1 1000 352 3 99 5| 0.0 3.0 3.0| 0.6 -2.0 -1.4 -1.4 -0.32| 3.2 -1.0 1500 323 5 90 2| 0.0 4.0 4.0| 0.6 -4.9 -4.3 -2.8 -0.54| 4.3 -2.3 2000 295 7 239 2| 0.0 4.6 4.6| 0.6 -13.7 -13.1 -6.6 -0.54| 5.2 -2.8 2500 NO DATA | 0.0 4.6 4.6| | 3000 NO DATA | 0.0 4.6 4.6| | 4000 NO DATA | 0.0 4.6 4.6| | 5000 NO DATA | 0.0 4.6 4.6| | 6000 NO DATA | 0.0 4.6 4.6| | Wrote GIF file: /home/apache/climate/data/raob//ZWHM/skewt/ZWHM.skewt.20200320.00.gif