{"id":12817,"date":"2015-06-09T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/?p=12817"},"modified":"2016-10-03T17:55:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T22:55:23","slug":"udx-nucaps-sounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/06\/09\/udx-nucaps-sounding\/","title":{"rendered":"UDX NUCAPS sounding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12818\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX-300x166.png\" alt=\"NUCAPS_UDX\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX-500x277.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX.png 1868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Initial NUCAPS (below) had a low SBCAPE, based on dry conditions.\u00a0 Temperature looked good on original sounding, but when I moistened the environment up (image above), got to the 4500-5000 CAPE SPS meso was showing earlier.\u00a0 Large spread of dewpoints over the area, likely b\/c of topography?\u00a0 Perhaps the RUC smoothes over those dewpoint changes and that&#8217;s the reason SPC meso had the large CAPE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_original.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12820\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_original-300x166.png\" alt=\"NUCAPS_UDX_original\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_original-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_original-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_original-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_original-500x277.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_original.png 1868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_METAR.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12821\" src=\"http:\/\/hwt.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/internal\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_METAR-300x166.png\" alt=\"NUCAPS_UDX_METAR\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_METAR-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_METAR-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_METAR-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_METAR-500x277.png 500w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2015\/06\/NUCAPS_UDX_METAR.png 1868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Initial NUCAPS (below) had a low SBCAPE, based on dry conditions.\u00a0 Temperature looked good on original sounding, but when I moistened the environment up (image above), got to&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2015\/06\/09\/udx-nucaps-sounding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14353,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12817\/revisions\/14353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}