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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 Albany, NY (ALB), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Albany, NY (ALB), for (6 h 3 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 (62)
Albany, NY (ALB): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
993 mb95 m15.612.5280° 7 kt
980 mb209 m14.811.7—
969 mb305 m14.111.2280° 23 kt
935 mb610 m11.99.5295° 38 kt
925 mb705 m11.49.1295° 36 kt
897 mb962 m11.49.1—
882 mb1104 m11.27.7—
870 mb1219 m11.45.7275° 40 kt
850 mb1413 m11.04.0280° 37 kt
839 mb1524 m10.33.9285° 37 kt
808 mb1829 m8.63.4275° 42 kt
779 mb2134 m6.83.0270° 45 kt
750 mb2438 m5.02.6265° 42 kt
723 mb2743 m3.22.2265° 38 kt
710 mb2891 m3.02.6—
700 mb3006 m2.62.4250° 47 kt
689 mb3134 m2.01.6—
666 mb3409 m0.80.4—
646 mb3658 m-0.2-0.4250° 64 kt
633 mb3817 m-0.9-0.9—
622 mb3962 m-1.6-1.6245° 70 kt
598 mb4267 m-3.0-3.5245° 65 kt
586 mb4432 m-3.9-4.5—
576 mb4572 m-4.7-5.4245° 61 kt
558 mb4818 m-6.1-7.1—
542 mb5046 m-8.1-9.6—
513 mb5472 m-10.7-11.7—
500 mb5670 m-12.1-12.4245° 69 kt
489 mb5838 m-13.7-16.2—
473 mb6096 m-15.2-16.9245° 75 kt
460 mb6298 m-16.3-17.5—
450 mb6462 m-17.3-19.2—
435 mb6706 m-19.1-21.0230° 80 kt
418 mb7010 m-21.1-24.2235° 78 kt
407 mb7204 m-22.1-25.4—
400 mb7330 m-23.7-29.7235° 84 kt
369 mb7925 m-25.1-32.6235° 81 kt
354 mb8218 m-25.7-32.7—
343 mb8446 m-26.9-33.9—
325 mb8833 m-29.1-36.1—
311 mb9144 m-31.4-38.4240° 95 kt
300 mb9400 m-33.3-40.3240° 94 kt
285 mb9754 m-34.8-42.8240° 96 kt
273 mb10058 m-36.2-44.2240° 96 kt
261 mb10363 m-37.9-46.4240° 99 kt
250 mb10668 m-39.7-48.7240° 107 kt
250 mb10670 m-39.7-48.7235° 110 kt
234 mb11118 m-42.6-51.6230° 117 kt
223 mb11442 m-44.7-53.7—
208 mb11887 m-48.3-56.7235° 111 kt
200 mb12160 m-50.5-58.5235° 113 kt
190 mb12497 m-53.0-61.0235° 112 kt
173 mb13106 m-55.5-63.5235° 116 kt
157 mb13716 m-58.5-65.9240° 101 kt
150 mb13990 m-60.3-67.3245° 101 kt
137 mb14553 m-62.5-69.5—
122 mb15240 m-65.8-72.8250° 78 kt
100 mb16459 m-68.5-76.5260° 55 kt
100 mb16460 m-68.5-76.5255° 44 kt
89 mb17145 m-67.9-78.9—
79 mb17881 m-66.0-79.5265° 32 kt
70 mb18655 m-62.7-75.7—
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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