Forecast Exercise: Question 3
To answer this question and others that follow, you first need to open the Interactive Skew-T with this sounding.
Now let's examine the sounding for that afternoon in some detail and determine some of the thermodynamic parameters based on this sounding. Determine the following, then click Done.
LCL: Correct: 915 hPa
Convective Temperature (Tc): Correct: 32.5°C
Total Totals index(TT): Correct: 60
SWEAT: Correct: 579
Lifted index (LI): Correct: -8.2
CAPE: Correct: 2192 J/kg
CIN: Correct: -95 j/kg
0-6 km shear magnitude: Correct: 87 kt (43 m/s)
BRN: Correct: 24