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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 - 05/02/2024
TIME (EDT)	3 AM	4 AM	5 AM	6 AM	7 AM	8 AM	9 AM	10 AM	11 AM	12 PM	1 PM	2 PM
SHOWALTER INDEX	5.28	4.84	4.18	6.5	5.39	6.55	6.1	5.56	4.35	2.89	2.29	2.86
LIFTED INDEX	6.46	6.17	5.05	5.27	4.59	5.61	6.09	5.84	4.44	2.8	2.13	2.46
SWEAT INDEX	239.26	251.49	248.12	256.8	248.16	256.94	260.16	269.37	254.52	149.48	169.49	155.49
K INDEX	25.49	26.15	26.61	21.29	23.63	21.83	22.52	22.8	26.51	28.05	28.66	28.2
TOTALS TOTAL INDEX	46.23	46.81	48.32	44.24	46.51	44.53	45.19	46.08	48.17	50.95	52.03	50.87
LCL HEIGHT (Ft)	1306	942	847	784	831	824	905	1291	1479	1203	711	634
LCL PRESSURE (mb)	922.46	933.5	936.68	938.06	937.51	937.12	932.62	920.37	914.19	922.01	937.71	939.78
LCL TEMP (in C)	5.64	6.38	6.66	6.83	6.8	6.82	6.68	6.27	6.41	7.01	7.93	8.35
PRECIP WATER (in)	0.71	0.71	0.7	0.65	0.64	0.63	0.68	0.7	0.74	0.75	0.81	0.81
CAPE (J/Kg)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2.55	3.59	5.08	11.76
NCAPE (J/Kg)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.01	0.01	0.01	0.01
CINS (J/Kg)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	-1.53	-0.75	-0.70	-0.72
LID STRENGTH (C)	4.7	4.5	4.9	8	7.8	6.7	5.7	4.8	4.9	4.6	5.1	4.7
EQ LEVEL (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	4706	4845	5170	6248
LFC (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	3639	3311	2957	2866
BULK RICHARDSON	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BRN SHEAR (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
SRH ( 0 - 1Km) (m/s)	43.53	31.37	19.26	44.74	49.53	106.26	107.96	70.53	45.3	39.42	46.05	34.92
SRH ( 0 - 3Km) (m/s)	81.1	45.1	74.7	150.8	172	155.8	125.3	120.4	126.5	108.3	96	-8.5
STORM MOTION	280 at 7	281 at 10	280 at 10	273 at 12	269 at 9	257 at 13	245 at 15	236 at 15	234 at 14	227 at 14	222 at 19	219 at 23
ENERGY HELICITY(EHI)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 KM SHEAR (Kts)	18	12	16	18	23	26	24	17	12	11	10	10
3 KM SHEAR (Kts)	13	6	3	3	6	7	10	12	18	19	15	14
6 KM SHEAR (Kts)	71	69	62	69	61	67	67	61	51	44	30	31
UP VERT VELOCITY (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	2	3	3	5
WBZ (Ft)	5142	5130	5130	4236	5130	3435	5118	5121	5121	5112	5109	4224
CRAVEN SIG SEVERE	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.07	0.08	0.08	0.19
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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