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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 Sterling, VA (IAD), 12Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Sterling, VA (IAD), for (15 h 51 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 (55)
Sterling, VA (IAD): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
1003 mb93 m17.016.5180° 9 kt
1000 mb117 m16.416.0185° 9 kt
978 mb305 m15.215.2200° 12 kt
950 mb553 m14.414.4—
933 mb707 m19.017.5—
925 mb781 m19.817.7245° 22 kt
914 mb885 m21.017.4—
902 mb1000 m21.416.8—
889 mb1126 m20.815.9—
870 mb1313 m19.414.8—
857 mb1443 m18.612.6—
850 mb1513 m18.68.6275° 31 kt
819 mb1829 m15.713.2260° 33 kt
790 mb2134 m14.111.5260° 33 kt
765 mb2408 m12.410.0—
735 mb2743 m10.19.1250° 27 kt
719 mb2926 m8.88.6—
709 mb3048 m8.17.6235° 28 kt
700 mb3148 m7.66.7245° 33 kt
669 mb3521 m5.84.6—
658 mb3658 m5.13.3245° 31 kt
634 mb3962 m3.11.3250° 31 kt
610 mb4267 m1.0-0.3240° 33 kt
590 mb4538 m-0.3-3.7—
565 mb4877 m-2.9-5.9240° 32 kt
539 mb5253 m-6.5-7.1—
529 mb5400 m-6.7-10.7—
500 mb5840 m-7.5-18.5235° 40 kt
487 mb6045 m-9.5-17.5—
472 mb6287 m-8.7-35.7—
447 mb6706 m-11.8-33.3250° 41 kt
428 mb7039 m-14.1-39.1—
400 mb7550 m-17.9-38.9240° 42 kt
389 mb7758 m-17.5-44.5—
370 mb8132 m-18.9-49.9—
339 mb8778 m-24.3-45.3—
322 mb9144 m-26.4-55.0240° 57 kt
302 mb9612 m-29.1-59.1—
300 mb9660 m-29.1-59.1250° 56 kt
250 mb10930 m-40.3-61.3250° 54 kt
239 mb11234 m-43.1-60.1—
218 mb11847 m-47.7-69.7—
200 mb12410 m-51.3-72.3270° 57 kt
187 mb12835 m-54.6-73.0265° 60 kt
158 mb13902 m-62.9-74.9—
150 mb14220 m-65.1-78.1280° 55 kt
139 mb14681 m-67.7-80.7—
127 mb15240 m-71.3-82.4270° 52 kt
105 mb16335 m-74.3-85.3275° 36 kt
100 mb16620 m-73.3-85.3255° 39 kt
87 mb17416 m-69.5-86.5—
72 mb18562 m-69.5-88.0285° 19 kt
62 mb19484 m-67.3-90.3—
51 mb20661 m-64.9-88.9—
42 mb21828 m-61.5-88.5—
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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