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SKEW-T DIAGRAM

DESCRIPTION OF PARAMETERS

TP: Tropopause level (mb)
MW: Max wind level (mb)
FRZ: Lowest freezing level (mb) or BG for below ground
WB0: Wet bulb zero (mb) or BG
PW: Precipitable water (in)
RH: Mean RH surface to 500 mb (%)
MAXT: Estimated max temperature (C) using a 150mb layer
TH: 1000-500mb thickness (m)
L57: 700-500mb lapse rate (C/km)
LCL: Lift condensation level (mb) from surface data
LI: Lifted index (C) using 100 mean layer above surface
SI: Showalter index (C)
TT: Total totals index
KI: K index
SW: Sweat index
EI: Energy index

-PARCEL-
This is a parcel trajectory (the yellow line on the sounding) based on 100 mb mean layer.
CAPE: Convective available potential energy
CINH: Convective inhibition (open ended)
LCL: Lift condensation level (mb)
CAP: Cap strength (C)
LFC: Level free convection (mb)
EL: Equilibrium level (mb)
MPL: Maximum parcel level (mb)
-WIND-
Wind parameters
STM: Estimated storm motion (knts) from 0-6000m AG mean layer, spd 75% of mean, dir 30 deg veer from mean.
HEL: Storm relative helicity 0-3000m AG (total value)
SHR+: Positive shear magnitude 0-3000m AG (sum of veering shear values)
SRDS: Storm relative directional shear 0-3000m AG (directional difference of storm relative winds)
EHI: Energy helicity index (prop to positive helicity * CAPE)
BRN: Bulk Richardson number 500-6000m AG (prop to CAPE/bulk shear)
BSHR: Bulk shear value (magnitude of shear over layer)

LATEST RAP RUN

RAP (RAPID REFRESH) RUN Ver 1.4 - LATEST MODEL RUN FOR KABR - 04/27/2024
TIME (EDT)	11 PM	12 AM	1 AM	2 AM	3 AM	4 AM	5 AM	6 AM	7 AM	8 AM	9 AM	10 AM
SHOWALTER INDEX	4.72	4.04	4.02	4.63	5.39	6.51	7.57	8.13	8.53	9.37	10.63	12.19
LIFTED INDEX	5.48	5.84	5.39	6.13	6.84	7.9	8.84	9.55	9.99	10.98	11.37	12.61
SWEAT INDEX	79.54	92.71	95.5	96.62	97.66	98.8	103.7	95.95	85.68	80.99	77.93	67.78
K INDEX	25.58	27.34	26.71	26.84	25.16	23.79	23.19	23	22.41	21.36	19.63	17.67
TOTALS TOTAL INDEX	44.82	45.79	46.14	45.11	44.14	42.55	40.96	40.18	39.78	38.3	36.6	34.16
LCL HEIGHT (Ft)	570	478	371	333	270	305	389	413	517	632	641	646
LCL PRESSURE (mb)	932.59	936.76	939.62	941.61	942.9	942.73	941.15	941.44	938.58	936.82	937.92	938.96
LCL TEMP (in C)	8.11	8.28	8.49	8.5	8.18	7.68	7.14	6.78	6.28	5.96	5.84	5.43
PRECIP WATER (in)	0.85	0.9	0.93	0.94	0.91	0.88	0.86	0.86	0.83	0.79	0.78	0.75
CAPE (J/Kg)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.87
NCAPE (J/Kg)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CINS (J/Kg)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-0.72	-0.71
LID STRENGTH (C)	3.1	2.5	4.9	6.3	7.6	8.5	9.3	9.2	9	9.8	11.5	13
EQ LEVEL (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	3442	4151
LFC (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	2904	2893
BULK RICHARDSON	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BRN SHEAR (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
SRH ( 0 - 1Km) (m/s)	40.94	32.46	16.71	0.24	-25.64	-44.63	-61.07	-64.39	-66.35	-70.81	-73.96	-66.01
SRH ( 0 - 3Km) (m/s)	63.5	65.2	53.4	57.9	60.2	34.4	-8.3	-26	-32.4	-14.7	-22.7	-17.3
STORM MOTION	262 at 9	284 at 9	290 at 11	290 at 13	295 at 15	312 at 18	321 at 22	317 at 24	312 at 26	314 at 28	319 at 30	314 at 30
ENERGY HELICITY(EHI)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 KM SHEAR (Kts)	10	11	6	1	8	13	14	14	14	17	17	14
3 KM SHEAR (Kts)	17	14	15	16	18	17	16	14	12	9	10	11
6 KM SHEAR (Kts)	27	27	28	27	22	21	19	15	11	10	11	11
UP VERT VELOCITY (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	0	1
WBZ (Ft)	5991	5997	5988	5994	5988	5997	6006	6018	6021	6042	5091	5100
CRAVEN SIG SEVERE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SUPERCELL COMPOSITE (SCP)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
SIG TORNADO (STP)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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