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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 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (YQI), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (YQI), for (6 h 32 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 (56)
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (YQI): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
1016 mb9 m7.01.0345° 14 kt
1000 mb163 m6.40.4350° 26 kt
983 mb305 m5.0-0.1345° 31 kt
946 mb610 m2.0-1.3340° 29 kt
925 mb795 m0.2-2.0335° 29 kt
911 mb914 m-0.7-2.7335° 29 kt
877 mb1219 m-3.1-4.5330° 22 kt
850 mb1467 m-5.1-5.9315° 22 kt
833 mb1625 m-5.9-9.0—
812 mb1829 m-7.9-9.1305° 15 kt
801 mb1931 m-8.9-9.2—
782 mb2116 m-10.3-11.8—
768 mb2255 m-8.5-37.5—
750 mb2438 m-8.9-42.4295° 24 kt
728 mb2669 m-9.5-48.5—
700 mb2972 m-8.7-49.7275° 41 kt
675 mb3254 m-6.3-49.3—
641 mb3658 m-8.6-50.1270° 49 kt
616 mb3962 m-10.4-50.7270° 50 kt
592 mb4267 m-11.3-52.5260° 61 kt
552 mb4801 m-12.3-56.3—
513 mb5356 m-15.3-59.3—
502 mb5520 m-13.9-50.9—
500 mb5550 m-14.1-49.1245° 87 kt
481 mb5845 m-15.7-36.7—
465 mb6096 m-17.1-25.6240° 106 kt
446 mb6414 m-19.5-22.2—
429 mb6706 m-20.8-26.4240° 120 kt
412 mb7003 m-23.1-27.8—
400 mb7220 m-24.7-29.7235° 121 kt
384 mb7516 m-26.1-40.1—
363 mb7925 m-26.7-60.4240° 133 kt
305 mb9144 m-35.2-62.9230° 144 kt
300 mb9270 m-36.1-63.1230° 147 kt
286 mb9600 m-38.7-64.7—
276 mb9843 m-40.9-49.9—
255 mb10378 m-44.5-60.5—
250 mb10510 m-45.5-53.5235° 164 kt
200 mb11970 m-51.5-73.5235° 145 kt
184 mb12509 m-53.3-76.3—
163 mb13283 m-57.1-80.1—
152 mb13716 m-56.7-81.5245° 123 kt
150 mb13810 m-56.9-81.9245° 111 kt
132 mb14630 m-59.2-84.2240° 92 kt
120 mb15240 m-59.5-84.8240° 88 kt
103 mb16154 m-60.8-85.9240° 66 kt
100 mb16360 m-60.3-86.3235° 74 kt
85 mb17374 m-58.3-87.0250° 51 kt
71 mb18484 m-57.9-87.9—
58 mb19796 m-57.1-88.1—
47 mb21031 m-59.0-88.2265° 7 kt
37 mb22555 m-57.8-88.1240° 19 kt
27 mb24689 m-54.7-86.7250° 9 kt
17 mb27737 m-53.0-86.6290° 10 kt
6 mb34138 m-41.6-82.1280° 19 kt
5 mb35849 m-36.1-79.1—
Every station with a sounding (76)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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