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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 Lamont, OK (LMN), 12Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Lamont, OK (LMN), 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 (53)
Lamont, OK (LMN): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
996 mb317 m8.03.8320° 12 kt
951 mb698 m6.20.2345° 36 kt
925 mb927 m4.6-1.4350° 38 kt
873 mb1394 m0.7-3.5000° 47 kt
860 mb1515 m-0.3-4.0—
850 mb1609 m-0.5-5.5355° 44 kt
838 mb1723 m-1.5-6.5—
819 mb1906 m0.2-12.8—
799 mb2104 m-0.1-21.4330° 40 kt
774 mb2358 m-0.5-32.5—
756 mb2546 m1.0-45.0—
745 mb2664 m0.8-45.6335° 36 kt
722 mb2915 m0.3-46.9315° 24 kt
700 mb3163 m-0.1-48.1320° 30 kt
687 mb3312 m-0.2-48.5320° 34 kt
655 mb3693 m-0.6-49.3300° 50 kt
642 mb3852 m-0.7-49.7—
597 mb4426 m-5.5-48.5—
582 mb4625 m-4.7-50.7—
548 mb5094 m-8.4-54.4295° 42 kt
530 mb5352 m-8.7-53.7—
505 mb5724 m-11.3-53.0300° 51 kt
500 mb5800 m-11.9-52.9300° 52 kt
464 mb6366 m-16.1-53.1—
438 mb6796 m-18.4-53.1275° 50 kt
409 mb7306 m-21.1-53.1—
400 mb7470 m-20.5-52.5270° 76 kt
387 mb7715 m-21.5-53.5—
369 mb8065 m-22.5-54.2260° 92 kt
346 mb8537 m-26.5-53.5—
326 mb8966 m-28.5-52.5—
309 mb9350 m-30.1-46.1—
300 mb9560 m-31.5-41.5250° 113 kt
260 mb10549 m-40.0-46.0250° 101 kt
250 mb10820 m-42.3-47.3250° 102 kt
238 mb11151 m-45.3-48.3—
219 mb11704 m-48.3-69.3—
200 mb12300 m-50.3-74.3250° 76 kt
189 mb12665 m-51.5-75.9250° 67 kt
175 mb13162 m-53.1-78.1—
158 mb13810 m-56.5-79.6235° 57 kt
150 mb14140 m-58.3-80.3245° 54 kt
128 mb15112 m-64.9-82.4250° 42 kt
113 mb15875 m-70.1-84.1—
100 mb16600 m-71.1-86.1280° 47 kt
86 mb17483 m-70.9-86.9—
76 mb18246 m-68.6-88.1260° 15 kt
65 mb19188 m-67.7-89.4235° 18 kt
55 mb20201 m-66.0-89.4315° 12 kt
43 mb21702 m-62.1-88.1225° 10 kt
32 mb23550 m-61.6-87.9005° 18 kt
22 mb25917 m-53.0-83.6270° 15 kt
19 mb26792 m-53.7-83.7—
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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