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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 Davenport, IA (DVN), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Davenport, IA (DVN), for (5 h 31 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 (60)
Davenport, IA (DVN): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
1001 mb229 m10.05.0345° 9 kt
1000 mb238 m10.44.4350° 16 kt
990 mb322 m10.04.0—
956 mb610 m7.22.4345° 24 kt
925 mb881 m4.60.9350° 23 kt
887 mb1219 m1.6-0.5000° 26 kt
854 mb1524 m-0.8-3.9000° 28 kt
850 mb1561 m-1.1-4.3005° 29 kt
836 mb1694 m-1.1-7.1—
822 mb1829 m-1.6-8.8010° 27 kt
792 mb2124 m-2.9-10.9—
780 mb2245 m-2.7-14.7—
761 mb2438 m-3.7-17.0005° 27 kt
732 mb2743 m-5.9-19.9000° 27 kt
704 mb3048 m-8.2-23.9345° 28 kt
700 mb3095 m-8.5-24.5350° 26 kt
677 mb3353 m-9.8-32.7350° 26 kt
664 mb3503 m-10.5-37.5—
651 mb3658 m-10.6-37.8350° 32 kt
632 mb3882 m-10.7-38.7—
621 mb4017 m-10.3-39.3—
602 mb4256 m-11.1-40.1—
592 mb4384 m-11.3-40.3—
578 mb4572 m-12.6-39.2015° 61 kt
555 mb4877 m-14.6-37.8015° 58 kt
544 mb5027 m-15.5-37.5—
519 mb5381 m-16.9-32.9—
500 mb5660 m-18.7-34.7015° 59 kt
483 mb5917 m-19.9-37.9—
471 mb6096 m-21.1-38.3005° 60 kt
455 mb6357 m-22.9-38.9—
445 mb6520 m-23.5-40.5—
434 mb6706 m-24.9-41.3005° 66 kt
413 mb7061 m-27.7-42.7—
400 mb7290 m-29.3-44.3010° 65 kt
382 mb7617 m-31.9-43.9—
366 mb7925 m-34.0-47.3005° 70 kt
350 mb8230 m-36.2-50.6000° 74 kt
335 mb8533 m-38.1-53.1—
323 mb8784 m-38.4-54.6000° 84 kt
309 mb9088 m-39.1-56.1—
300 mb9290 m-40.7-57.7005° 74 kt
280 mb9754 m-43.3-60.3355° 63 kt
268 mb10058 m-44.6-61.1345° 66 kt
250 mb10510 m-46.5-62.5355° 58 kt
236 mb10892 m-46.9-62.9—
226 mb11180 m-46.9-62.9—
216 mb11481 m-46.1-63.1—
203 mb11887 m-49.1-66.1320° 38 kt
200 mb11990 m-49.9-66.9315° 38 kt
188 mb12393 m-51.1-68.1—
177 mb12802 m-51.0-68.8315° 38 kt
164 mb13282 m-50.9-68.9—
154 mb13690 m-52.7-70.7—
150 mb13860 m-53.1-71.1290° 40 kt
139 mb14326 m-55.2-72.3280° 47 kt
129 mb14825 m-53.9-71.9—
115 mb15545 m-56.8-73.8270° 38 kt
105 mb16154 m-57.2-74.0270° 47 kt
100 mb16440 m-58.3-74.3275° 31 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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