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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 - 10/05/2023
TIME (EDT)	8 PM	9 PM	10 PM	11 PM	12 AM	1 AM	2 AM	3 AM	4 AM	5 AM	6 AM	7 AM
SHOWALTER INDEX	3.12	0.53	0.44	-0.84	-1.17	-1.46	-1.44	2.29	3.22	0.41	2.86	7.7
LIFTED INDEX	2.69	0.39	-0.55	-0.82	-1.98	-2.44	-1.67	-0.37	1.54	-0.35	1.71	4.44
SWEAT INDEX	159.96	260.92	267.77	277.34	280.58	281.1	277.84	141.02	109.22	244.26	157.12	146.79
K INDEX	23.01	31.23	31.91	34.18	30.41	23.98	24.84	20.11	18.35	22.89	20.8	11.32
TOTALS TOTAL INDEX	48.07	52.67	52.85	54.22	55.5	56.65	56.81	50.54	49.11	54.4	50.42	40.58
LCL HEIGHT (Ft)	5449	4579	2671	1022	1004	964	1396	1722	1562	1319	1637	1755
LCL PRESSURE (mb)	782.06	810.96	874.48	929.93	930.15	930.96	916.66	907.2	912.72	921.14	912.02	908.7
LCL TEMP (in C)	1.64	3.18	7.95	11.3	11.45	11.47	10	8.76	8.64	8.46	7.54	6.41
PRECIP WATER (in)	0.64	0.8	0.88	0.98	0.78	0.71	0.64	0.61	0.52	0.61	0.55	0.41
CAPE (J/Kg)	21.98	110.83	168.94	190.83	317.00	321.46	216.91	148.40	5.77	110.54	40.49	22.80
NCAPE (J/Kg)	0.01	0.04	0.04	0.04	0.06	0.06	0.05	0.04	0	0.03	0.02	0.02
CINS (J/Kg)	-29.13	-37.31	-52.23	-28.33	-61.64	-75.37	-111.22	-130.01	-157.84	-43.99	-53.30	-82.83
LID STRENGTH (C)	3.5	2.3	1	1.4	3.6	7.9	6.2	8.9	10.5	2.7	4.4	8.7
EQ LEVEL (Ft)	13848	17550	20522	22757	23100	23065	22551	21702	17683	18750	14630	12965
LFC (Ft)	8939	7449	5556	5793	6310	6371	9568	10403	11968	7709	6449	8275
BULK RICHARDSON	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BRN SHEAR (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
SRH ( 0 - 1Km) (m/s)	61.73	83.73	62.53	88.06	151.71	147.83	16.44	-57.06	-72	1.17	-48.82	-29.91
SRH ( 0 - 3Km) (m/s)	91.1	108.8	77.8	27.8	100.2	185.6	115.9	-59	-57.5	-23.7	-156	-120.8
STORM MOTION	303 at 24	292 at 26	288 at 28	294 at 31	308 at 32	312 at 31	300 at 42	294 at 47	292 at 48	295 at 47	295 at 52	298 at 55
ENERGY HELICITY(EHI)	0.01	0.08	0.08	0.03	0.2	0.37	0.16	-0.05	0	-0.02	-0.04	-0.02
1 KM SHEAR (Kts)	11	19	13	21	26	26	24	23	25	25	24	31
3 KM SHEAR (Kts)	23	24	27	34	32	33	31	32	30	35	33	37
6 KM SHEAR (Kts)	36	41	32	22	34	42	38	39	47	56	53	58
UP VERT VELOCITY (m/s)	6	14	18	19	24	25	20	17	3	14	9	7
WBZ (Ft)	5121	5121	5121	6105	6096	6090	5124	5130	4242	4248	4257	3447
CRAVEN SIG SEVERE	0.41	2.34	2.78	2.16	5.55	6.95	4.24	2.98	0.14	3.19	1.1	0.68
SUPERCELL COMPOSITE (SCP)	0	0	0	0.1	0.6	1.1	0.3	0	0	0	0	0
SIG TORNADO (STP)	0	0	0	0.2	0.5	0.5	0	0	0	0	0	0

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