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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 - 04/23/2024
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	0.97	1.84	2.25	2.6	2.51	2.21	2.17	2.92	5.34	7.78	8.37	8.56
LIFTED INDEX	0.93	1.74	2.14	2.26	2.3	2.88	4.07	4.92	7.18	8.5	8.63	8.64
SWEAT INDEX	262.81	230.86	214.08	212.04	214.8	222.32	217.11	186.45	119.26	109.46	93.85	89.37
K INDEX	17.97	19.16	19.75	20.69	19.6	20.13	20.07	19.45	15.53	11.4	9.7	9.65
TOTALS TOTAL INDEX	55.27	54.34	54.01	53.69	54.08	54.27	54.17	52.42	47.6	43.05	42.01	41.3
LCL HEIGHT (Ft)	4283	3716	3073	2429	1977	1713	2363	3102	3575	4266	5481	6395
LCL PRESSURE (mb)	815.94	835.14	856.97	879.82	896.39	904.91	883.85	859.49	845.15	823.01	783.99	754.54
LCL TEMP (in C)	-2.81	-1.7	-0.5	0.76	1.61	1.89	0.58	-0.65	-0.91	-1.8	-4.44	-6.32
PRECIP WATER (in)	0.37	0.39	0.42	0.45	0.45	0.44	0.43	0.43	0.42	0.4	0.37	0.36
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)	1.8	2.1	1.3	1.1	1.1	3.6	2.5	1.6	4.5	8.8	10.4	10.7
EQ LEVEL (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
LFC (Ft)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BULK RICHARDSON	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
BRN SHEAR (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
SRH ( 0 - 1Km) (m/s)	13.69	25.64	25.16	32.89	29.08	123.71	107.56	76.92	52.46	35.38	27.63	20.76
SRH ( 0 - 3Km) (m/s)	-62.9	-85.9	-10.7	36.7	38.3	152.1	152	75.9	22.6	9.7	11.2	2.5
STORM MOTION	295 at 51	303 at 49	310 at 47	314 at 48	320 at 47	338 at 38	351 at 30	357 at 32	359 at 36	357 at 41	360 at 39	358 at 38
ENERGY HELICITY(EHI)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1 KM SHEAR (Kts)	30	30	27	27	26	27	25	20	15	10	8	8
3 KM SHEAR (Kts)	33	33	26	26	27	26	20	14	11	12	10	9
6 KM SHEAR (Kts)	54	36	31	33	32	27	29	31	39	33	28	25
UP VERT VELOCITY (m/s)	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---	---
WBZ (Ft)	3405	2694	2697	2700	2706	2706	3426	3426	3435	2715	2718	2718
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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