Unfortunately the 1830Z pass of the NPP just barely skimmed the ICT area. The only points available in relatively clear air were on the western edge of the swath, so we are taking the data with a grain of salt.

The sounding after editing the surface data (used the nearby Dodge City obs)

Overall the sounding doesn’t look too terrible. The CAPE is way higher than the GOES-R LAP…in fact it was around double.

To compare a real (and way more impressive) sounding, here is the 18Z KOUN obs:

which had SB CAPE over twice the GOES-R LAPS values There was decent cloud cover at the time.

For what it’s worth, the 18Z RAP analysis was overdone in both locations, though much closer (within ~400 J/kg) near OUN compared to about 1,000 J/kg near our NUCAPS sounding.

-V. Darkbloom