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SPC soundings: feeds current

SPC soundings: Feed current; checked .

Checked means retrieved, not newly issued. Each graphic retains its issue, observation, initialization or valid time. Site publishing status is separate.

Soundings: what weather balloons measured

SPC’s skew-T diagram and hodograph of the sounding at Albuquerque, NM (ABQ), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Albuquerque, NM (ABQ), for (5 h 7 min ago). SPC’s graphic; the values in its panels (CAPE, shear, the indices) are SPC’s computations from these levels. Data: NOAA/SPC.

A balloon launched about an hour before the time named, measuring as it rose and drifted with the wind: the atmosphere above one place, at one time. Model soundings, which are forecasts, are not shown here.

The levels this sounding was drawn from (54)
Albuquerque, NM (ABQ): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
852 mb1619 m17.6-5.4125° 12 kt
850 mb1650 m16.4-3.6115° 17 kt
834 mb1806 m14.8-4.2120° 16 kt
812 mb2026 m12.5-5.1120° 16 kt
776 mb2399 m8.7-6.5110° 16 kt
757 mb2602 m6.6-7.3095° 17 kt
746 mb2723 m5.4-7.8105° 17 kt
724 mb2969 m2.9-8.8090° 15 kt
702 mb3218 m0.8-10.2075° 20 kt
700 mb3241 m0.6-10.4075° 19 kt
682 mb3450 m2.8-24.2—
672 mb3569 m2.4-33.6085° 27 kt
661 mb3702 m1.4-34.6090° 25 kt
640 mb3961 m-0.5-36.5—
623 mb4175 m-1.1-34.1—
609 mb4356 m-0.5-28.5—
595 mb4541 m-1.5-30.2105° 25 kt
580 mb4744 m-2.9-32.8100° 24 kt
565 mb4950 m-4.3-34.1130° 19 kt
551 mb5147 m-5.7-36.9140° 17 kt
526 mb5509 m-8.3-38.2115° 11 kt
512 mb5718 m-9.9-37.9075° 10 kt
500 mb5900 m-10.9-37.9070° 14 kt
484 mb6149 m-12.5-39.2090° 17 kt
470 mb6374 m-14.2-40.3080° 18 kt
453 mb6652 m-16.2-39.8105° 16 kt
433 mb6993 m-18.7-38.7100° 6 kt
421 mb7202 m-20.2-40.9130° 10 kt
410 mb7398 m-21.8-41.9130° 9 kt
400 mb7580 m-23.3-42.3100° 11 kt
375 mb8047 m-26.8-45.4120° 15 kt
364 mb8260 m-28.1-46.1155° 10 kt
350 mb8538 m-29.6-48.7155° 15 kt
330 mb8956 m-31.8-52.5210° 10 kt
315 mb9281 m-34.3-55.0255° 11 kt
301 mb9597 m-36.7-56.8260° 19 kt
300 mb9620 m-36.9-56.9260° 20 kt
285 mb9973 m-39.9-58.1250° 25 kt
270 mb10342 m-42.1-59.1245° 26 kt
251 mb10833 m-45.3-60.4245° 35 kt
250 mb10860 m-45.5-60.5245° 36 kt
240 mb11129 m-47.4-61.3245° 39 kt
225 mb11555 m-50.5-62.5—
212 mb11942 m-51.7-63.3240° 54 kt
200 mb12320 m-53.1-64.1240° 57 kt
185 mb12821 m-55.1-67.1—
172 mb13285 m-56.7-68.7245° 56 kt
159 mb13783 m-57.7-69.7—
150 mb14150 m-59.9-71.9265° 40 kt
140 mb14576 m-63.5-74.5—
127 mb15169 m-65.5-76.5245° 25 kt
116 mb15719 m-65.6-76.0230° 28 kt
105 mb16319 m-68.5-77.5275° 21 kt
100 mb16610 m-69.3-78.3275° 17 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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