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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 Buffalo, NY (BUF), 00Z. Its levels are in the table below.
Observed Sounding at Buffalo, NY (BUF), for (5 h 30 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 (53)
Buffalo, NY (BUF): the surface first, then up through the atmosphere. Temperature and dew point in °C, as measured.
PressureHeightTemperatureDew pointWind
987 mb215 m10.87.5310° 14 kt
967 mb385 m9.45.0—
945 mb575 m7.64.6315° 27 kt
925 mb752 m6.04.2315° 26 kt
905 mb931 m4.22.9—
856 mb1382 m1.6-0.5—
850 mb1439 m1.20.0335° 20 kt
840 mb1534 m0.6-2.1—
817 mb1757 m0.4-5.1300° 23 kt
760 mb2334 m-2.6-3.4280° 31 kt
741 mb2535 m-3.7-4.6—
722 mb2739 m-5.1-5.1—
700 mb2982 m-6.5-6.8275° 39 kt
690 mb3095 m-6.9-6.9—
667 mb3359 m-8.9-9.1—
655 mb3499 m-10.5-19.5—
638 mb3702 m-9.5-31.5—
624 mb3874 m-9.7-32.7—
612 mb4024 m-9.3-37.3260° 50 kt
600 mb4177 m-7.1-42.1—
588 mb4335 m-6.5-22.5—
572 mb4550 m-8.5-19.5—
560 mb4714 m-9.1-15.1—
543 mb4953 m-9.1-11.5245° 96 kt
532 mb5112 m-9.5-11.1—
521 mb5273 m-9.9-11.9—
504 mb5529 m-11.7-13.9—
500 mb5590 m-12.1-14.1240° 91 kt
479 mb5917 m-14.5-15.4—
468 mb6091 m-15.5-16.6240° 90 kt
421 mb6883 m-20.3-22.1—
407 mb7133 m-21.9-22.7—
400 mb7260 m-22.1-22.8240° 105 kt
387 mb7503 m-23.7-24.4—
361 mb8010 m-25.9-26.7—
346 mb8316 m-28.9-29.4—
335 mb8548 m-28.9-30.7—
325 mb8764 m-30.1-36.1—
300 mb9330 m-34.1-37.2235° 113 kt
290 mb9566 m-36.1-51.1—
257 mb10394 m-42.1-47.1—
250 mb10580 m-42.7-51.7230° 110 kt
240 mb10855 m-44.7-58.7—
224 mb11316 m-44.9-60.9—
207 mb11842 m-46.7-63.7—
200 mb12070 m-48.3-65.3230° 121 kt
184 mb12612 m-52.3-68.3—
169 mb13157 m-55.5-71.5—
156 mb13664 m-56.9-72.9—
150 mb13910 m-59.1-73.1245° 104 kt
131 mb14751 m-62.5-75.7250° 98 kt
113 mb15659 m-65.5-78.5245° 64 kt
100 mb16410 m-62.1-76.1255° 53 kt
Every station with a sounding (78)

SPC observed soundings checked · Data: NOAA/SPC

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