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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 Charleston, SC (CHS), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Charleston, SC (CHS), for (4 h 27 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)
Charleston, SC (CHS): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
1011 mb15 m25.820.8205° 5 kt
1000 mb112 m25.220.2205° 15 kt
985 mb245 m24.618.6—
945 mb610 m22.117.6225° 16 kt
930 mb748 m21.016.8—
925 mb795 m20.816.5250° 16 kt
912 mb914 m19.815.9255° 16 kt
880 mb1219 m17.114.3270° 19 kt
850 mb1520 m14.412.8275° 20 kt
819 mb1829 m12.69.4275° 23 kt
793 mb2105 m16.2-12.8—
781 mb2235 m16.0-15.0—
762 mb2438 m14.7-8.7250° 23 kt
747 mb2610 m13.6-3.4—
735 mb2743 m12.6-5.2240° 24 kt
709 mb3048 m10.4-11.9235° 24 kt
700 mb3153 m9.6-14.4245° 24 kt
683 mb3353 m8.8-20.4240° 21 kt
668 mb3540 m8.0-26.0—
638 mb3917 m5.8-7.2—
617 mb4190 m4.0-6.0—
593 mb4512 m2.0-7.0—
581 mb4677 m1.2-8.8—
569 mb4845 m0.2-9.8—
557 mb5015 m-0.3-14.3—
546 mb5182 m-1.4-12.6225° 32 kt
529 mb5426 m-3.3-14.3—
508 mb5745 m-4.9-22.9—
500 mb5870 m-5.7-22.7225° 32 kt
486 mb6096 m-7.3-21.8225° 31 kt
456 mb6585 m-10.5-22.5—
446 mb6756 m-11.7-20.7—
431 mb7010 m-13.6-24.3230° 31 kt
404 mb7505 m-17.1-23.1—
400 mb7580 m-17.5-23.5230° 37 kt
389 mb7788 m-18.9-25.9—
376 mb8041 m-20.7-27.7—
365 mb8260 m-22.5-28.5—
354 mb8484 m-24.1-27.9—
337 mb8839 m-26.9-30.7240° 40 kt
323 mb9144 m-29.2-33.4230° 40 kt
310 mb9449 m-31.1-36.9230° 38 kt
300 mb9670 m-32.5-39.5235° 40 kt
286 mb10003 m-35.1-42.1—
271 mb10363 m-38.3-44.0230° 42 kt
259 mb10668 m-41.1-45.7240° 47 kt
250 mb10920 m-42.9-47.9240° 45 kt
240 mb11194 m-44.7-50.7—
226 mb11582 m-46.5-54.1235° 54 kt
216 mb11887 m-47.9-56.8230° 49 kt
200 mb12400 m-50.3-61.3220° 41 kt
188 mb12801 m-53.3-65.3—
174 mb13294 m-56.7-67.7—
159 mb13860 m-60.9-70.9—
150 mb14220 m-62.9-72.9220° 51 kt
138 mb14729 m-66.1-75.1—
127 mb15240 m-68.8-77.9225° 45 kt
114 mb15850 m-72.9-80.4245° 43 kt
103 mb16459 m-75.5-82.5240° 36 kt
100 mb16630 m-76.1-83.1230° 30 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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