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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 Dodge City, KS (DDC), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Dodge City, KS (DDC), for (5 h 6 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 (48)
Dodge City, KS (DDC): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
944 mb790 m11.6-1.4010° 14 kt
925 mb957 m9.8-2.2005° 18 kt
896 mb1219 m7.3-2.8005° 16 kt
850 mb1650 m3.2-3.8345° 18 kt
831 mb1829 m1.5-4.2350° 17 kt
811 mb2028 m-0.5-4.2—
800 mb2134 m-1.2-6.6350° 17 kt
790 mb2238 m-1.5-10.5—
780 mb2339 m-1.7-19.7—
763 mb2515 m-0.9-38.9—
746 mb2696 m3.4-45.6—
710 mb3097 m3.2-42.8—
700 mb3212 m2.2-46.8035° 36 kt
688 mb3353 m1.1-47.3035° 36 kt
662 mb3658 m-1.2-48.2030° 35 kt
644 mb3877 m-2.9-48.9—
634 mb4001 m-2.5-27.5—
617 mb4216 m-2.5-22.5—
592 mb4542 m-4.5-22.5—
570 mb4839 m-4.9-22.9—
549 mb5134 m-5.1-26.1—
530 mb5409 m-7.1-25.1—
504 mb5791 m-9.0-30.2345° 28 kt
500 mb5860 m-9.3-31.3345° 29 kt
485 mb6096 m-10.9-33.7335° 32 kt
448 mb6706 m-15.6-40.6320° 30 kt
431 mb6988 m-18.1-42.1—
400 mb7540 m-22.9-44.9325° 29 kt
388 mb7763 m-24.9-46.9—
367 mb8166 m-27.1-50.1—
349 mb8534 m-29.7-54.2325° 24 kt
334 mb8839 m-32.1-54.3315° 25 kt
320 mb9144 m-34.6-52.3315° 26 kt
300 mb9590 m-38.1-55.1310° 28 kt
288 mb9869 m-39.9-59.9—
263 mb10482 m-44.1-66.1—
250 mb10820 m-46.5-65.5320° 32 kt
222 mb11582 m-52.4-67.7300° 40 kt
202 mb12192 m-57.1-69.5320° 36 kt
200 mb12270 m-57.7-69.7320° 36 kt
190 mb12594 m-54.5-75.5—
175 mb13106 m-57.7-78.0285° 38 kt
159 mb13716 m-58.3-80.3—
150 mb14080 m-60.7-80.7290° 42 kt
140 mb14508 m-61.5-83.5—
124 mb15240 m-63.6-83.4300° 44 kt
108 mb16098 m-67.5-84.5—
100 mb16560 m-68.1-85.1285° 38 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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