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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 Brownsville, TX (BRO), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Brownsville, TX (BRO), for (4 h 28 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)
Brownsville, TX (BRO): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
1020 mb7 m24.616.6350° 16 kt
1000 mb181 m22.615.6355° 29 kt
954 mb587 m18.714.9000° 36 kt
932 mb789 m16.814.6—
925 mb853 m16.214.8005° 35 kt
910 mb992 m15.415.0—
895 mb1133 m14.814.5010° 34 kt
850 mb1570 m12.812.8005° 25 kt
812 mb1954 m11.011.0—
799 mb2089 m11.26.2—
788 mb2205 m11.04.0—
773 mb2365 m12.4-14.6—
759 mb2518 m11.2-19.8—
741 mb2718 m10.0-22.0—
728 mb2864 m9.4-21.6—
714 mb3025 m8.4-9.6—
701 mb3176 m8.0-13.0—
700 mb3188 m8.0-13.0030° 9 kt
685 mb3366 m7.0-11.0—
641 mb3907 m3.1-17.1340° 10 kt
626 mb4098 m3.8-34.2—
616 mb4229 m3.0-23.0—
591 mb4562 m1.5-29.1015° 13 kt
580 mb4713 m0.4-22.6—
565 mb4923 m-0.5-19.5035° 10 kt
553 mb5093 m-1.9-22.9—
542 mb5253 m-2.1-15.1—
529 mb5445 m-2.5-38.5—
517 mb5627 m-3.1-44.1—
507 mb5781 m-3.7-30.7—
500 mb5890 m-4.9-28.9090° 3 kt
483 mb6162 m-7.1-30.1—
469 mb6392 m-7.7-32.7—
449 mb6731 m-9.7-43.7—
420 mb7246 m-12.0-45.3240° 11 kt
409 mb7450 m-12.9-45.9—
400 mb7620 m-14.3-44.3260° 17 kt
387 mb7865 m-16.5-45.5250° 16 kt
368 mb8237 m-19.8-47.3260° 16 kt
349 mb8629 m-23.4-49.2240° 17 kt
337 mb8887 m-25.7-51.7250° 15 kt
327 mb9104 m-26.7-43.7—
306 mb9579 m-29.4-55.9245° 15 kt
300 mb9720 m-30.1-48.1250° 21 kt
289 mb9984 m-32.3-45.3—
272 mb10408 m-35.7-49.7—
261 mb10694 m-37.5-44.5255° 31 kt
251 mb10963 m-39.3-49.3—
250 mb10990 m-38.9-57.9265° 37 kt
236 mb11382 m-41.5-60.5—
206 mb12287 m-49.7-56.7—
200 mb12480 m-50.9-60.9290° 45 kt
186 mb12949 m-55.1-61.1—
168 mb13591 m-60.9-66.9—
158 mb13972 m-62.7-75.7280° 25 kt
150 mb14290 m-65.7-74.7270° 25 kt
139 mb14748 m-69.3-72.5—
129 mb15189 m-72.1-78.1—
119 mb15662 m-72.7-81.7—
107 mb16279 m-74.9-83.9—
100 mb16670 m-76.3-85.3195° 11 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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