For the afternoon, a more complex cloud regime was seen over northern Texas and into OK. GOES-R LAP algorithm struggled to correctly identify the CAPE gradients and values were roughly 30-50% of model and observational data comparisons. The data was not used to assess the instability.
Not a fair comparison. GOES Sounder LAP CAPE represents instability between the LFC and EL, while it appears you are comparing it with MUCAPE, which will have higher values, often significantly, in most situations. It would also be helpful to know what gradients were thought to have been missed. Were they ones you saw in model data (which could be wrong)? Or perhaps they were surface boundaries unable to be captured aloft.
– BL