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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 - 11/30/2022
TIME (EST)	2 PM	3 PM	4 PM	5 PM	6 PM	7 PM	8 PM	9 PM	10 PM	11 PM	12 AM	1 AM
SHOWALTER INDEX	18.14	18.5	17.97	18.57	18.91	19.58	20.08	20.57	21.09	20.71	19.34	19.46
LIFTED INDEX	23.57	23.57	23.78	24.39	24.96	25.75	26.27	26.55	26.82	26.15	26.07	25.77
SWEAT INDEX	117.47	104.26	93.92	79.13	70.13	61.35	65.26	75.06	234.18	250.33	244.97	257.31
K INDEX	-19.6	-23.37	-20.48	-20.44	-22.71	-25.4	-23.72	-20.25	-20.27	-22.9	-14.82	-8.91
TOTALS TOTAL INDEX	27.86	26.82	27.35	26.27	23.85	21.26	19.39	18.28	15.6	11.75	17.49	20.56
LCL HEIGHT (Ft)	3439	3604	3440	3317	2947	2737	2355	1924	1744	1664	1714	1711
LCL PRESSURE (mb)	861.47	855.08	860.13	864.95	876.98	884.48	897	910.97	918.28	918.84	915.78	916.36
LCL TEMP (in C)	-16.1	-16.87	-16.5	-16.24	-15.98	-15.88	-15.8	-15.71	-15.81	-15.9	-16.04	-15.94
PRECIP WATER (in)	0.13	0.12	0.13	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.17	0.2	0.19	0.19	0.23	0.28
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)	26.9	26	24.6	25.8	25.7	26.6	28.4	29.1	29.9	28	28.7	30.1
EQ LEVEL (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
LFC (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BULK RICHARDSON	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BRN SHEAR (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
SRH ( 0 - 1Km) (m/s)	13.56	15.72	8.97	9.32	13.2	30.96	66.61	101.81	129.1	133.59	147.79	190.43
SRH ( 0 - 3Km) (m/s)	-32.3	-13	-33.5	-47.4	-45.1	-24.6	27.9	94	150.4	241.7	298.2	400.1
STORM MOTION	325 at 45	325 at 41	322 at 37	318 at 32	310 at 30	304 at 26	300 at 26	296 at 25	290 at 23	285 at 24	281 at 26	272 at 24
ENERGY HELICITY(EHI)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 KM SHEAR (Kts)	5	4	4	3	4	5	10	15	19	17	18	25
3 KM SHEAR (Kts)	24	25	26	24	25	28	32	34	33	35	35	37
6 KM SHEAR (Kts)	64	62	57	48	45	45	59	66	72	73	68	65
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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