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Sounding Display

-SHARPpy Documentation-

Unless otherwise noted; inqueries about the sounding display can be resolved by referencing the SHARPpy documentation found here

-Local Modifications-

Wind bars and Hodograph segments are color-coded base on height AGL in KM from 0-1, 1-3, 3-6, 6-9, and >9KM in magenta, red, green, yellow, and cyan respectively.

Sounding Index Descriptions

-STANDARD-

FRZ	Lowest freezing level (mb) or BG for below ground
WB0	Wet bulb zero (mb) or BG for below ground
PW	Precipitable water (in)
RH	Average relative humidity from surface to 500 mb (%)
MAXT	Maximum estimated forecast temperature (C) using a 150mb layer
TH	1000-500 mb thickness (m)
L57	700-500 mb lapse rate (C/km)
LCL	Lifting condensation level (mb) using parcel choice
LI	Lifted index @ 500 mb (C) using parcel choice
SI	Showalter index (C)
TT	Total totals index (C)
KI	K index
SW	SWEAT index
EI	Energy index (cal)

-PARCEL- : Thermodynamic Parameters

CAPE	Convective available potential energy (J/kg) using parcel choice
CINH	Convective inhibition (J/kg) using parcel choice
LCL	Lifting condensation level (mb) using parcel choice
CAP	Cap strength (C) using parcel choice
LFC	Level of free convection (mb) using parcel choice
EL	Equilibrium level (mb) using parcel choice
MPL	Maximum parcel level (mb) using parcel choice

-WIND- : Kinematic Parameters

STM	Estimated storm motion (knts) from 0-6 km AGL mean layer, spd 75% of mean, dir 30 deg veer from mean
HEL	0-3 km AGL storm relative helicity
SHR+	0-3 km AGL positive shear magnitude (sum of veering shear values)
SRDS	0-3 km AGL storm relative directional shear (directional difference of storm relative winds)
EHI	0-3 km AGL energy helicity index
BRN	Bulk Richardson number
BSHR	0-6 km AGL bulk shear value (kts)

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      MODEL GRIDDED SOUNDING PLOTTING (Ver 5.52-LINUX-X11)

Current filename: /home/data/models/gfs/2404280600F009.gfs
Reading from grid file:/home/data/models/gfs/2404280600F009.gfs
Searching file for grids...
VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10
VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10
Date: 9 hour GFS valid 15Z SUN 28 APR 24
Station: 58.49,29.3
Latitude:   58.49
Longitude:  29.30
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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
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SFC 1015    89  15.9   7.0  56  8.9  11.0 214   4 287.8 288.8 283.5 305.2  6.19
  1 1000   217  15.4   4.5  48 10.9   9.7 216   8 288.6 289.5 282.8 303.6  5.27
  2  950   649  11.3   3.1  57  8.2   7.2 222   8 288.7 289.6 282.6 303.0  5.03
  3  900  1097   7.2   1.6  68  5.6   4.5 234   6 288.9 289.8 282.4 302.6  4.78
  4  850  1564   3.0  -0.9  75  3.9   1.3 258   5 289.3 290.1 282.0 301.5  4.21
  5  800  2051  -1.3  -3.3  86  2.0  -2.1 264   5 289.8 290.4 281.6 300.6  3.74
  6  750  2562  -5.4  -7.4  86  2.0  -6.1 257   6 290.7 291.2 281.0 299.3  2.92
  7  700  3100  -8.4 -16.8  51  8.4 -10.8 262   9 293.2 293.5 280.3 297.7  1.47
  8  650  3671 -11.8 -24.3  35 12.5 -14.5 271  12 295.6 295.8 280.6 298.3  0.83
  9  600  4279 -15.7 -30.4  27 14.7 -18.3 275  15 298.0 298.1 281.2 299.6  0.51
 10  550  4929 -20.8 -32.9  33 12.1 -22.6 275  18 299.4 299.4 281.7 300.8  0.43
 11  500  5625 -26.7 -33.1  55  6.4 -27.6 275  19 300.5 300.5 282.2 302.0  0.47
 12  450  6375 -32.8 -35.5  77  2.7 -33.1 277  19 302.0 302.1 282.7 303.4  0.41
 13  400  7192 -39.9 -40.0  99  0.1 -39.9 283  20 303.1 303.1 283.0 304.1  0.29
 14  350  8087 -48.4 -48.4 100  0.0 -48.4 283  25 303.5 303.5 283.0 304.0  0.14
 15  300  9085 -54.1 -57.3  68  3.1 -54.2 293  27 309.1 309.1 285.1 309.3  0.06
 16  250 10259 -51.8 -69.3  11 17.4 -52.1 274  29 329.0 329.0 291.5 329.1  0.01
 17  200 11711 -49.4 -75.7   3 26.3 -49.9 260  27 354.5 354.5 297.6 354.6  0.01
 18  150 13600 -49.5 -79.3   2 29.8 -50.2 264  20 384.8 384.8 303.0 384.8  0.00
 19  100 16249 -50.8 -80.3   2 29.5 -51.7 247  12 429.6 429.6 308.8 429.6  0.01
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Sounding variables and indices
1000-500 mb thick:      5407.32 m
Freezing level:          815.06 mb =  1904.45 m =  6248.13 ft
Wetbulb zero:            831.61 mb =  1739.74 m =  5707.75 ft
Precipitable water:        0.59 inches
Sfc-500 mean rel hum:     54.34 %
Est. max temperature:     17.32 C =   63.17 F
Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 888.63 mb =  1200.93 m =  3940.02 ft T:    6.27 C
700-500 lapse rate:        7.28 C/km
ThetaE index:              7.50 C Layer 1000.0- 650.0 mb
Conv cond level (CCL):   833.20 mb =  1724.32 m =  5657.14 ft
  Mean mixing ratio:       5.16 g/kg
  Conv temperature:       17.58 C =   63.65 F
Cap Strength:              0.73 C
Lifted Index:             -0.09 C Risk: Thunderstorms probable
Lifted Index @300 mb:      4.20 C
Lifted Index @700 mb:     -0.82 C
Showalter Index:           1.20 C Risk: Showers probable
Total Totals Index:       55.60 C Risk: Severe Thunderstorms probable
  Vertical Totals Index:  29.76 C
  Cross Totals Index:     25.83 C
K Index:                  20.44   Risk: 20-40 % chance of thunderstorms
Sweat Index:             161.50   Risk: None
Energy Index:              0.09   Risk: None

Parcel Indices
Parcel: using 100 mb layer
CAPE (B+):                56.91 J/kg
Max Up Vert Vel:          10.67 m/s
Conv Inhibition (B-):     16.05 J/kg
Cap Strength:              0.73 C
Lift Cond Lev (LCL):     843.86 mb =  1622.18 m =  5322.05 ft
Lev Free Conv (LFC):     808.86 mb =  1962.72 m =  6439.29 ft
Equ Level (EL):          618.86 mb =  4044.32 m = 13268.62 ft
B at Equ Level:           56.09 J/kg
Max Parcel Lev (MPL):    338.86 mb =  8296.69 m = 27219.78 ft

Wind Parameters
Mean winds (0-6000m):            266.0 at   11.2 knts
Storm direction:                 296.0 at    8.4 knts
Shear (0-3000m)              pos:    1.1 neg:    0.2 tot:    1.3 10-3/s
Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m):      48.2 deg
Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos:   14.5 neg:   -3.2 tot:   11.3 m^2/s^2
                             ave:    3.8 10^-3 m/s^2 rel:   0.40
Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz:    2.4 stream:    1.0 10^-3/s
Energy-Hel index:          0.00
Bulk Rich Number:          6.26
Bulk Shear:                9.09 m/s

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