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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 - 03/29/2023
TIME (EST)	10 AM	11 AM	12 PM	1 PM	2 PM	3 PM	4 PM	5 PM	6 PM	7 PM	8 PM	9 PM
SHOWALTER INDEX	20.67	20.3	20.47	20.84	21.3	21.38	21.48	21.11	21.08	20.37	20.66	20.28
LIFTED INDEX	25.92	25.51	25.41	25.74	25.78	25.73	26.19	26.48	26.68	26.27	25.77	25.57
SWEAT INDEX	71.88	64.77	60.33	63.18	73.27	79.12	81.82	83.13	81.47	79.91	78.99	81.23
K INDEX	-38.76	-38.91	-39.54	-42.55	-44.43	-50.82	-56.48	-54.22	-47.96	-43.86	-42.91	-41.24
TOTALS TOTAL INDEX	16.38	17.52	15.52	13.45	12.36	9.85	5.05	4.34	5.95	8.86	8.91	9.83
LCL HEIGHT (Ft)	75	531	665	1076	2060	2815	3190	3151	2648	1682	1110	839
LCL PRESSURE (mb)	978.11	962.6	957.33	943.93	910.23	884.68	871.07	871.66	887.54	919.54	937.81	947.15
LCL TEMP (in C)	-20.64	-20.68	-16.44	-14.43	-14.78	-15.78	-16.25	-15.96	-14.56	-12.41	-12.16	-12.83
PRECIP WATER (in)	0.08	0.08	0.08	0.07	0.07	0.07	0.06	0.07	0.08	0.09	0.11	0.12
CAPE (J/Kg)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
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	0.00	0.00
LID STRENGTH (C)	27.7	27.4	27.2	27.5	27.9	27.9	28.5	28.9	29.6	28.9	28.3	27.7
EQ LEVEL (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
LFC (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BULK RICHARDSON	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BRN SHEAR (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
SRH ( 0 - 1Km) (m/s)	-23.59	5.09	6.7	3.61	18.9	20.38	13.67	15.54	34.36	60.99	89.89	88.19
SRH ( 0 - 3Km) (m/s)	-32.9	-27.2	0.4	10.7	27.3	49.5	72.4	92.3	100.9	118.6	116.3	125.1
STORM MOTION	328 at 30	324 at 29	319 at 27	312 at 27	309 at 26	306 at 27	307 at 25	306 at 26	307 at 26	307 at 25	309 at 24	308 at 23
ENERGY HELICITY(EHI)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 KM SHEAR (Kts)	4	1	1	1	3	3	2	2	4	8	12	12
3 KM SHEAR (Kts)	21	21	17	16	15	19	23	27	29	28	27	25
6 KM SHEAR (Kts)	60	59	61	63	63	64	67	67	68	66	64	61
UP VERT VELOCITY (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
WBZ (Ft)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
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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