4. Forecast Applications

Convection » Heavy Precip./Flash Floods Forecast Exercise

To answer this question and others that follow, you first need to open the Interactive Skew-T with this sounding.

1. Modify the sounding, based on forecast 1800 UTC surface conditions of T = 29°C and Td = 17°C.

2. Based on the modified sounding, determine the following parameters listed below, then click Done.

CAPE: J/kg     

K index (KI):      

Convective Temperature (Tc): °C     

LCL: hPa     

Melting Level: hPa     

Precipitable Water: in     

Mid-tropospheric Wind Shear 700-300 hPa: kt