Thursday, May 15, 2008

Super-adiabatic Layers This Morning

The following soundings exhibit elevated super-adiabatic layers this morning for the 1200 UTC flights:

AMA FWD BNA LBF LZK JAN LCH

The problem at LBF was due to an intense warm spike.

The too cool layers in several of these soundings cause computed CAPE to be inaccurate.

I cross-checked the NCAR RAP plots with those at Wyoming this morning, and all the above
problem soundings were similar at each web page.

LCH is the most bizarre sounding of the bunch. The instrument apparently was launched into
a thunderstorm or deep convection.

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