MODEL GRIDDED SOUNDING PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11) Current filename: /home/data/models/nam_218/2307211200F012.nam218 Reading from grid file:/home/data/models/nam_218/2307211200F012.nam218 Searching the city database file for: KMOT ... Searching file for grids... Date: 12 hour NAM valid 0Z SAT 22 JUL 23 Station: KMOT Latitude: 48.27 Longitude: -101.28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEV PRES HGHT TEMP DEWP RH DD WETB DIR SPD THETA THE-V THE-W THE-E W mb m C C % C C deg knt K K K K g/kg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 1000 99 SFC 954 514 28.3 10.9 34 17.4 17.2 294 9 305.5 307.1 292.1 331.4 8.59 2 950 553 27.6 9.9 33 17.7 16.4 294 10 305.2 306.7 291.6 329.5 8.06 3 900 1027 22.9 8.4 40 14.4 14.0 294 12 305.1 306.5 291.2 328.4 7.73 4 850 1520 18.0 7.5 50 10.6 11.7 294 13 305.0 306.5 291.2 328.1 7.65 5 800 2035 13.1 6.7 65 6.3 9.3 293 14 305.1 306.5 291.2 328.3 7.72 6 750 2573 7.8 5.8 87 2.0 6.6 294 15 305.0 306.5 291.2 328.3 7.71 7 700 3137 3.6 0.4 80 3.2 2.0 314 24 306.5 307.6 289.9 323.8 5.65 8 650 3735 0.0 -5.2 68 5.2 -2.4 318 23 309.0 309.7 289.2 321.4 3.98 9 600 4372 -3.7 -14.9 42 11.2 -7.7 321 23 311.8 312.2 288.2 318.4 2.01 10 550 5053 -7.5 -22.5 29 15.0 -11.8 324 24 315.2 315.4 288.4 319.0 1.14 11 500 5788 -12.1 -32.0 17 19.9 -16.3 322 26 318.2 318.3 288.8 320.1 0.52 12 450 6585 -17.6 -40.2 12 22.6 -21.0 321 28 321.2 321.2 289.4 322.1 0.26 13 400 7454 -24.4 -43.7 15 19.3 -26.7 319 30 323.3 323.3 290.0 324.1 0.20 14 350 8410 -32.6 -44.5 30 11.9 -33.7 318 32 324.8 324.8 290.5 325.6 0.21 15 300 9478 -40.6 -52.8 26 12.2 -41.2 317 34 328.1 328.2 291.3 328.5 0.10 16 250 10693 -50.0 -59.1 33 9.2 -50.3 314 36 331.8 331.8 292.3 332.0 0.05 17 200 12125 -55.7 -67.2 22 11.6 -55.9 311 41 344.6 344.6 295.4 344.7 0.02 18 150 13983 -50.9 -80.3 2 29.5 -51.4 312 40 382.4 382.4 302.6 382.5 0.00 19 100 16589 -56.2 -84.4 2 28.2 -56.6 310 25 419.2 419.2 307.6 419.2 0.00 TRP 0 WND 0 Sounding variables and indices 1000-500 mb thick: 5688.91 m Freezing level: 649.87 mb = 3736.75 m = 12259.54 ft Wetbulb zero: 677.29 mb = 3403.33 m = 11165.66 ft Precipitable water: 0.99 inches Sfc-500 mean rel hum: 52.52 % Est. max temperature: 27.86 C = 82.15 F Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 739.40 mb = 2689.11 m = 8822.44 ft T: 6.94 C 700-500 lapse rate: 5.96 C/km ThetaE index: 9.97 C Layer 750.0- 550.0 mb Conv cond level (CCL): 720.31 mb = 2903.16 m = 9524.67 ft Mean mixing ratio: 7.82 g/kg Conv temperature: 28.69 C = 83.65 F Cap Strength: 0.51 C Lifted Index: -0.27 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Lifted Index @300 mb: 0.57 C Lifted Index @700 mb: -0.18 C Showalter Index: 0.02 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable Total Totals Index: 49.80 C Risk: Scattered heavy thunderstorms Vertical Totals Index: 30.19 C Cross Totals Index: 19.61 C K Index: 34.46 Risk: 60-80 % chance of thunderstorms Sweat Index: 158.26 Risk: None Energy Index: -1.57 Risk: Scattered severe thunderstorms Parcel Indices Parcel: using 100 mb layer CAPE (B+): 104.73 J/kg Max Up Vert Vel: 14.47 m/s Conv Inhibition (B-): 4.67 J/kg Cap Strength: 0.51 C Lift Cond Lev (LCL): 728.63 mb = 2809.21 m = 9216.46 ft Lev Free Conv (LFC): 703.63 mb = 3095.00 m = 10154.07 ft Equ Level (EL): 313.63 mb = 9170.14 m = 30085.41 ft B at Equ Level: 103.50 J/kg Max Parcel Lev (MPL): 243.63 mb = 10858.87 m = 35625.77 ft Wind Parameters Mean winds (0-6000m): 313.9 at 20.3 knts Storm direction: 343.9 at 15.2 knts Shear (0-3000m) pos: 2.1 neg: 0.9 tot: 2.9 10-3/s Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m): 81.9 deg Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos: 58.4 neg: 0.0 tot: 58.4 m^2/s^2 ave: 19.5 10^-3 m/s^2 rel: 0.97 Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz: 3.2 stream: 3.0 10^-3/s Energy-Hel index: 0.01 Bulk Rich Number: 6.94 Bulk Shear: 15.09 m/s