A couple of people asked where the NWS gets their data from to determine CAPE, CIHN, and overall severe weather potential. One way is the skew-t, like shown below. Its a sounding of what is occurring in the atmosphere. The sounding shown below is an experimental product and there will be times where data collection will be degraded. This is a living document taken from the GOES-8/9 satellites and will change over time as additional soundings are taken about once an hour. Here is the link to the current sounding. osdpd.noaa.gov/skewt/html/mke.html There is a writeup at this link which describes all sections and indicators of the skew-t sounding. osdpd.noaa.gov/skewt/html/skewmapinf.html
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:46:45 +0000
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