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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 Birmingham, AL (BMX), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Birmingham, AL (BMX), for (5 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 (61)
Birmingham, AL (BMX): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
998 mb178 m18.414.5330° 13 kt
983 mb305 m17.214.0330° 20 kt
948 mb610 m14.212.7335° 24 kt
925 mb819 m12.211.8335° 26 kt
915 mb914 m11.711.3340° 26 kt
900 mb1049 m11.210.8—
882 mb1219 m11.911.7330° 20 kt
868 mb1353 m12.812.8—
851 mb1524 m12.011.6275° 16 kt
850 mb1529 m12.011.6275° 16 kt
825 mb1779 m10.69.4—
806 mb1973 m9.67.0—
791 mb2134 m9.05.5260° 27 kt
774 mb2309 m8.43.9—
762 mb2439 m7.63.4265° 30 kt
734 mb2743 m5.62.8255° 36 kt
715 mb2961 m4.22.3—
700 mb3133 m3.0-1.1245° 37 kt
677 mb3403 m1.2-12.8—
659 mb3620 m1.0-17.0—
647 mb3768 m0.4-12.6—
632 mb3962 m0.7-19.0260° 38 kt
619 mb4123 m1.2-19.8—
609 mb4254 m0.8-21.2—
594 mb4454 m-0.5-7.5—
575 mb4715 m-0.3-14.3—
563 mb4877 m-1.3-12.0235° 42 kt
535 mb5289 m-3.5-25.5—
522 mb5482 m-5.3-20.3—
508 mb5696 m-6.3-22.3—
500 mb5820 m-6.3-27.3240° 48 kt
486 mb6040 m-7.7-30.7—
464 mb6401 m-10.4-27.3245° 51 kt
446 mb6706 m-12.6-26.1240° 45 kt
428 mb7010 m-13.4-35.1250° 39 kt
411 mb7317 m-15.3-34.3—
400 mb7520 m-16.5-37.5260° 45 kt
379 mb7925 m-19.4-39.7265° 46 kt
364 mb8230 m-21.8-41.4260° 46 kt
350 mb8510 m-23.9-42.9—
335 mb8839 m-25.8-44.8265° 46 kt
321 mb9144 m-28.0-43.8265° 47 kt
307 mb9449 m-30.2-41.7265° 47 kt
300 mb9620 m-31.5-40.5270° 46 kt
282 mb10058 m-35.5-43.1270° 45 kt
270 mb10363 m-38.2-45.0265° 44 kt
258 mb10668 m-40.7-47.1265° 45 kt
250 mb10880 m-41.5-49.5275° 43 kt
236 mb11278 m-45.3-52.4275° 45 kt
219 mb11761 m-49.5-55.5—
205 mb12192 m-52.1-60.3250° 43 kt
200 mb12350 m-53.1-62.1250° 42 kt
189 mb12713 m-55.5-64.5—
169 mb13411 m-57.5-69.3245° 41 kt
154 mb14021 m-61.0-72.2230° 52 kt
150 mb14170 m-61.9-72.9235° 53 kt
140 mb14596 m-62.5-74.5—
126 mb15240 m-66.5-77.2240° 41 kt
114 mb15850 m-69.8-79.3235° 41 kt
103 mb16446 m-71.7-80.7—
100 mb16620 m-72.1-81.1255° 42 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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