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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/2511090600F006.gfs
Reading from grid file:/home/data/models/gfs/2511090600F006.gfs
Searching file for grids...
VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10
VAR_make_datatype: no ltype: 10
Date: 6 hour GFS valid 12Z SUN  9 NOV 25
Station: 59.03,25.46
Latitude:   59.03
Longitude:  25.46
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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 1004    77   7.8   4.4  79  3.4   6.2 251   5 280.7 281.6 279.1 295.1  5.24
  1 1000   107   7.8   3.9  76  3.9   5.9 254   7 281.0 281.8 279.1 295.0  5.07
  2  950   528   4.2   2.4  89  1.7   3.4 265  14 281.4 282.2 279.0 294.7  4.80
  3  900   965   1.5   1.1  97  0.4   1.4 268  15 283.1 283.9 279.6 296.0  4.62
  4  850  1429   5.9  -5.0  45 11.0   1.3 284  14 292.3 292.9 282.0 301.5  3.09
  5  800  1925   5.5 -11.0  29 16.6  -0.8 284  14 297.0 297.4 282.7 303.4  2.06
  6  750  2450   3.7 -11.8  31 15.5  -2.1 279  14 300.6 301.0 284.2 307.0  2.07
  7  700  3006  -0.5  -7.8  58  7.3  -3.5 281  14 301.9 302.5 285.8 311.2  3.03
  8  650  3593  -5.4 -10.5  67  5.1  -7.3 279  19 302.9 303.3 285.7 311.1  2.64
  9  600  4216 -10.0 -15.7  63  5.6 -11.8 279  22 304.5 304.9 285.5 310.5  1.88
 10  550  4882 -13.5 -25.1  37 11.6 -16.2 289  26 308.0 308.2 285.7 311.0  0.90
 11  500  5599 -19.3 -26.3  54  7.0 -20.8 301  28 309.5 309.7 286.2 312.5  0.89
 12  450  6372 -26.0 -30.8  64  4.9 -26.8 294  27 310.6 310.7 286.4 312.8  0.65
 13  400  7213 -32.2 -37.0  62  4.8 -32.7 289  29 313.2 313.3 286.9 314.6  0.40
 14  350  8143 -38.8 -43.9  58  5.1 -39.2 286  30 316.4 316.4 287.8 317.2  0.22
 15  300  9181 -46.9 -48.9  79  2.1 -47.0 285  30 319.3 319.3 288.7 319.9  0.15
 16  250 10366 -55.4 -57.9  74  2.5 -55.5 279  32 323.7 323.7 289.9 323.9  0.06
 17  200 11759 -63.0 -66.2  65  3.2 -63.0 276  38 333.0 333.0 292.6 333.1  0.03
 18  150 13541 -60.2 -78.6   7 18.4 -60.4 293  16 366.3 366.3 299.9 366.3  0.01
 19  100 16053 -63.0 -84.6   4 21.6 -63.1 288  20 406.1 406.1 306.0 406.1  0.00
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Sounding variables and indices
1000-500 mb thick:      5491.63 m
Freezing level:          705.96 mb =  2940.03 m =  9645.66 ft
Wetbulb zero:            819.52 mb =  1727.50 m =  5667.59 ft
Precipitable water:        0.61 inches
Sfc-500 mean rel hum:     56.58 %
Est. max temperature:     18.79 C =   65.82 F
Sfc-Lift cond lev (LCL): 952.79 mb =   503.76 m =  1652.73 ft T:    4.38 C
700-500 lapse rate:        7.25 C/km
ThetaE index:              0.40 C Layer 1000.0- 900.0 mb
Conv cond level (CCL):   906.84 mb =   903.95 m =  2965.66 ft
  Mean mixing ratio:       4.84 g/kg
  Conv temperature:       10.00 C =   49.99 F
Cap Strength:             13.01 C
Lifted Index:             13.14 C Risk: None
Lifted Index @300 mb:     17.21 C
Lifted Index @700 mb:     11.84 C
Showalter Index:           8.63 C Risk: None
Total Totals Index:       39.47 C Risk: None
  Vertical Totals Index:  25.21 C
  Cross Totals Index:     14.26 C
K Index:                  12.83   Risk: None
Sweat Index:              55.99   Risk: None
Energy Index:              2.36   Risk: None

Parcel Indices
Parcel: using 100 mb layer
CAPE (B+):                 7.61 J/kg
Max Up Vert Vel:           3.90 m/s
Conv Inhibition (B-):  14319.57 J/kg
Cap Strength:             13.15 C
Lift Cond Lev (LCL):     923.22 mb =   759.11 m =  2490.49 ft
Lev Free Conv (LFC):      -1.00 mb = -9999.00 m = -9999.00 ft

Wind Parameters
Mean winds (0-6000m):            284.4 at   18.7 knts
Storm direction:                 314.4 at   14.0 knts
Shear (0-3000m)              pos:    1.8 neg:    0.2 tot:    2.0 10-3/s
Storm rel Dir Shear (0-3000m):      55.6 deg
Storm rel helicity (0-3000m) pos:   34.7 neg:   -0.9 tot:   33.8 m^2/s^2
                             ave:   11.3 10^-3 m/s^2 rel:   0.66
Storm rel vorticity (0-3000m) horiz:    2.9 stream:    1.9 10^-3/s
Energy-Hel index:          0.00
Bulk Rich Number:          0.59
Bulk Shear:               12.84 m/s

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