UPPER AIR CALCULATIONS AND PLOTTING (Ver 5.47-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /mnt/noaaport/nwstg/convert/08072312_upa.wxp Date: 1200Z 23 JUL 08 Searching for KCRP... Searching the city database file for: KCRP ... Date:1200Z 23 JUL 08 Station: KCRP WMO ident: 72251 Latitude: 27.77 Longitude: -97.50 Elevation: 13.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 1008 13 23.4 22.2 93 1.2 22.6 45 8 295.9 298.9 295.4 344.7 16.95 1 1000 81 23.2 22.0 93 1.2 22.3 55 13 296.4 299.4 295.5 345.0 16.87 2 974 311 22.0 21.8 99 0.2 21.9 60 23 297.4 300.5 296.0 347.0 17.12 3 941 612 21.8 21.1 96 0.7 21.3 45 17 300.1 303.2 296.6 349.9 16.97 4 929 724 22.6 20.0 85 2.6 20.8 49 17 302.0 305.0 296.5 349.4 16.04 5 925 762 22.6 19.8 84 2.8 20.6 50 17 302.4 305.3 296.5 349.4 15.91 6 914 867 22.4 19.4 83 3.0 20.3 57 20 303.2 306.1 296.6 349.8 15.70 7 850 1496 18.0 17.8 99 0.2 17.9 65 27 305.0 307.8 296.8 350.6 15.26 8 836 1638 17.0 17.0 100 0.0 17.0 65 29 305.4 308.1 296.5 349.5 14.74 9 812 1887 15.8 15.7 99 0.1 15.7 65 30 306.7 309.3 296.3 348.7 13.95 10 798 2036 15.4 13.8 90 1.6 14.3 65 30 307.8 310.1 295.7 345.7 12.53 11 768 2361 14.0 12.6 91 1.4 13.1 65 29 309.7 311.9 295.8 346.3 12.03 12 732 2765 10.4 10.4 100 0.0 10.4 71 30 310.0 312.1 295.1 343.3 10.89 13 712 2996 10.0 10.0 100 0.0 10.0 82 27 312.0 314.1 295.6 345.6 10.90 14 700 3138 8.8 8.8 100 0.0 8.8 85 28 312.2 314.2 295.2 343.7 10.22 15 671 3486 7.2 7.2 100 0.0 7.2 88 38 314.2 316.1 295.3 343.9 9.55 16 607 4301 1.2 0.4 94 0.8 0.8 95 36 316.5 317.7 293.6 337.1 6.51 17 553 5047 -0.9 -1.0 99 0.1 -1.0 73 31 322.5 323.8 295.1 343.4 6.45 18 529 5399 -2.7 -2.7 100 0.0 -2.7 324.5 325.6 295.3 343.9 5.94 TRP WND Sounding variables and indices Freezing level: 576.14 mb = 4726.97 m = 15508.24 ft Wetbulb zero: 582.99 mb = 4623.81 m = 15169.81 ft Precipitable water: 2.25 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 96.02 % Est. max temperature: 32.32 C = 90.18 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 990.88 mb = 161.17 m = 528.78 ft T: 22.78 C ThetaE index: 4.92 C Layer 836.0- 768.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 873.38 mb = 1260.78 m = 4136.37 ft Mean mixing ratio: 16.69 g/kg Conv temperature: 31.90 C = 89.42 F Cap Strength: 2.52 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -1.24 C Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 212.49 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 20.62 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 63.32 J/kg Cap Strength: 2.43 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 940.03 mb = 621.17 m = 2037.94 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 755.03 mb = 2504.21 m = 8215.81 ft Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 75.4 at 29.6 knts Storm direction: 105.4 at 22.2 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 3.2 neg: 0.4 tot: 3.6 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 82.0 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 152.2 neg: -39.6 tot: 112.6 m^2/s^2 ave: 37.5 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.47 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 9.0 stream: 4.2 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.18 Bulk Rich Number: 8.42 Bulk Shear: 25.25 m/s