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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 - 03/19/2025
TIME (EST)	4 PM	5 PM	6 PM	7 PM	8 PM	9 PM	10 PM	11 PM	12 AM	1 AM	2 AM	3 AM
SHOWALTER INDEX	12.37	12.46	12.03	11.64	11.21	10.42	9.8	9.06	8.91	8.93	9.47	10.1
LIFTED INDEX	12.21	12.21	11.8	11.47	11.15	10.78	10.31	9.67	9.67	9.92	10.65	11.33
SWEAT INDEX	80.44	80.45	83.25	84.7	86.86	92.1	96.97	95.57	94.89	93.93	92.79	87.57
K INDEX	-12.74	-11.26	-8.2	-6.72	-5.56	-6.15	-6.03	-3.16	-0.75	-0.71	0.18	0.73
TOTALS TOTAL INDEX	34.43	33.95	35.42	36.75	38.07	40	41.19	42.63	42.67	42.51	41.25	39.6
LCL HEIGHT (Ft)	7336	7676	7274	6642	5477	4396	3807	3431	3107	2874	2945	2820
LCL PRESSURE (mb)	726.66	715.44	728.74	750.51	789.25	825.98	847.69	857.95	868.44	874.89	873.23	877.3
LCL TEMP (in C)	-16.81	-17.86	-16.69	-15.14	-13	-11.17	-10.35	-10.13	-10.16	-10.57	-11.26	-11.68
PRECIP WATER (in)	0.14	0.14	0.15	0.17	0.19	0.2	0.21	0.21	0.21	0.2	0.21	0.22
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)	16	16	15.2	14.6	14.1	13.6	13.1	12	12	12.1	12.5	13.1
EQ LEVEL (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
LFC (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BULK RICHARDSON	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BRN SHEAR (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
SRH ( 0 - 1Km) (m/s)	-33.58	-31.98	12.39	21.93	37.05	65.55	73.51	93.68	66.82	25.08	27.09	38.73
SRH ( 0 - 3Km) (m/s)	-23.6	-24.6	-22.9	-9.1	14.6	43.3	81.6	88.2	63.6	25.6	25.9	32.9
STORM MOTION	319 at 35	322 at 38	350 at 42	351 at 41	351 at 42	353 at 41	351 at 40	1 at 31	2 at 27	3 at 28	0 at 30	358 at 28
ENERGY HELICITY(EHI)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 KM SHEAR (Kts)	8	8	9	12	17	20	22	22	21	18	13	12
3 KM SHEAR (Kts)	12	14	15	18	23	25	25	25	26	25	23	25
6 KM SHEAR (Kts)	3	7	13	19	23	29	33	37	42	47	49	49
UP VERT VELOCITY (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
WBZ (Ft)	246	246	243	243	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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