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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 Santa Teresa, NM (EPZ), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Santa Teresa, NM (EPZ), for (3 h 58 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)
Santa Teresa, NM (EPZ): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
890 mb1252 m16.2-0.8100° 14 kt
878 mb1367 m13.2-1.8—
864 mb1501 m11.7-1.8110° 19 kt
853 mb1608 m10.5-1.8105° 20 kt
850 mb1637 m10.2-1.8100° 20 kt
834 mb1794 m8.8-2.1095° 18 kt
821 mb1924 m7.6-2.4—
807 mb2066 m6.4-3.6—
761 mb2545 m3.4-9.6—
740 mb2771 m2.4-11.4070° 23 kt
730 mb2881 m2.7-12.2080° 23 kt
718 mb3015 m3.8-13.2—
704 mb3175 m2.9-12.6095° 23 kt
700 mb3221 m2.6-12.4095° 24 kt
664 mb3647 m1.7-8.9125° 16 kt
652 mb3793 m1.9-7.3120° 15 kt
631 mb4057 m1.2-6.8115° 13 kt
620 mb4198 m0.2-7.6130° 11 kt
610 mb4328 m-0.9-8.3135° 10 kt
600 mb4459 m-2.0-9.1125° 10 kt
590 mb4593 m-2.9-9.9—
579 mb4742 m-2.7-9.7—
568 mb4894 m-3.5-11.5—
552 mb5119 m-5.1-12.1—
536 mb5348 m-6.1-14.8125° 16 kt
522 mb5555 m-7.0-17.2135° 13 kt
506 mb5798 m-8.1-20.1—
500 mb5890 m-8.9-20.9105° 10 kt
480 mb6204 m-11.7-22.7100° 7 kt
465 mb6448 m-13.9-24.0085° 6 kt
429 mb7057 m-18.2-29.9335° 3 kt
417 mb7269 m-18.3-20.4—
406 mb7469 m-19.3-20.8—
400 mb7580 m-20.3-21.9205° 18 kt
387 mb7823 m-21.9-23.2—
374 mb8073 m-23.9-25.7215° 20 kt
361 mb8329 m-25.8-27.3200° 19 kt
349 mb8573 m-27.6-28.7190° 20 kt
336 mb8844 m-30.0-31.2185° 19 kt
324 mb9101 m-31.9-34.6205° 21 kt
305 mb9525 m-34.9-41.9—
300 mb9640 m-35.7-42.7230° 32 kt
284 mb10019 m-37.9-44.9—
271 mb10341 m-39.3-46.3—
261 mb10598 m-40.9-48.9—
250 mb10890 m-42.5-51.5240° 43 kt
237 mb11250 m-44.4-52.4235° 47 kt
223 mb11657 m-47.7-55.7—
210 mb12052 m-50.5-58.5240° 50 kt
200 mb12370 m-52.7-60.7240° 47 kt
189 mb12732 m-55.0-62.0250° 48 kt
179 mb13077 m-57.3-64.3—
167 mb13513 m-59.1-66.1245° 48 kt
157 mb13898 m-60.7-67.7250° 46 kt
150 mb14180 m-61.9-68.9250° 40 kt
139 mb14649 m-62.7-69.7—
128 mb15153 m-65.5-71.5275° 22 kt
118 mb15642 m-68.9-73.9—
107 mb16222 m-71.7-76.2220° 22 kt
100 mb16620 m-71.7-77.7235° 25 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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