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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 Oakland, CA (OAK), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Oakland, CA (OAK), for (4 h 30 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 (58)
Oakland, CA (OAK): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
1016 mb3 m27.68.6285° 11 kt
1003 mb121 m27.45.4—
1000 mb148 m27.45.4315° 10 kt
982 mb305 m26.43.4310° 6 kt
949 mb610 m26.7-3.3070° 1 kt
927 mb815 m25.2-5.8—
925 mb834 m25.0-5.0200° 4 kt
885 mb1219 m22.0-1.0—
851 mb1557 m19.6-10.4—
850 mb1567 m19.6-10.4240° 6 kt
829 mb1782 m19.0-10.0—
795 mb2134 m16.7-17.1215° 2 kt
767 mb2438 m14.9-22.6155° 2 kt
740 mb2743 m13.2-28.1170° 8 kt
728 mb2881 m12.4-30.6—
700 mb3208 m10.2-27.8110° 8 kt
688 mb3353 m8.8-26.4125° 10 kt
670 mb3569 m6.8-24.2—
624 mb4148 m2.4-28.6—
592 mb4572 m0.6-36.4—
570 mb4877 m0.3-45.8100° 25 kt
548 mb5182 m-1.8-48.0090° 27 kt
508 mb5791 m-6.2-50.6100° 27 kt
500 mb5910 m-7.1-51.1080° 26 kt
488 mb6096 m-8.4-52.4075° 28 kt
466 mb6456 m-10.9-54.9—
433 mb7010 m-15.7-53.0085° 30 kt
400 mb7610 m-20.9-50.9075° 29 kt
386 mb7871 m-22.9-46.9—
352 mb8534 m-28.3-54.7055° 29 kt
332 mb8953 m-31.7-59.7—
317 mb9278 m-34.1-65.1—
300 mb9660 m-36.9-52.9085° 27 kt
276 mb10233 m-41.3-60.3—
250 mb10900 m-45.9-63.9035° 13 kt
236 mb11278 m-48.2-66.5030° 12 kt
225 mb11582 m-50.6-65.3005° 17 kt
215 mb11887 m-51.7-62.8010° 16 kt
202 mb12296 m-52.5-66.5—
200 mb12360 m-53.1-67.1325° 27 kt
187 mb12788 m-55.7-69.7—
164 mb13615 m-58.3-81.3—
154 mb14007 m-60.9-81.9—
150 mb14170 m-61.5-83.5300° 29 kt
139 mb14630 m-63.6-83.1305° 22 kt
129 mb15095 m-64.9-84.9—
119 mb15584 m-65.9-85.9—
108 mb16154 m-70.4-86.8230° 14 kt
100 mb16620 m-71.5-87.5265° 18 kt
88 mb17361 m-73.9-87.9225° 17 kt
78 mb18114 m-66.7-87.7—
65 mb19189 m-65.5-89.2220° 4 kt
55 mb20205 m-64.9-89.9220° 20 kt
43 mb21722 m-61.9-89.9160° 10 kt
33 mb23364 m-59.1-89.2195° 1 kt
21 mb26189 m-55.5-87.5—
11 mb30418 m-47.4-83.8000° 11 kt
10 mb31117 m-46.3-83.3—
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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