Myfrotho704_
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Welp here we go, first time ever posting a thread, but anyways here’s the learning thread ! ???
Yes this is why I have always loved this site. Instead of a bunch of snarky comments, I believe this is very important to a lot of people on this board.@Myfrotho704_ instead of liking each post I'm just going to say thanks man, your visual explanations are fantastic. Way to get it going
Decent CAPE sounding altho it is on the lower side, decent 0-6km shear aswell, storm relative helicity is pretty high, but this sounding is lacking in richer moisture supportive of tornadoes at the surface through the column, also storms would move due west based off storm slinky, and oh yeah 0-3km lapses/CAPE is lacking aswell which is another limiting factorIN THE MOST REDNECK TERMS POSSIBLE CAN SOMEONE BREAK THIS DOWN? IM TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT TO A FEW COWORKERS BUT HAVING DIFFICULTY
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WHEN YOU GET TIME CAN YOU POINT OUT THE CAPE, SHEAR, HELICITY, AND OTHER PARAMETERS SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WITH A VISUAL AIDE? WANT TO MAKE SURE IM TELLING THEM THE RIGHT INFODecent CAPE sounding altho it is on the lower side, decent 0-6km shear aswell, storm relative helicity is pretty high, but this sounding is lacking in richer moisture supportive of tornadoes at the surface through the column, also storms would move due west based off storm slinky, and oh yeah 0-3km lapses/CAPE is lacking aswell which is another limiting factor
This is a thunderstorm sounding, when you see those dotted lines in a sounding, that normally indicates cape, CAPE is basically the amount of energy A parcel would have if lifted up into the the atmosphere, in this sounding, there’s 2267 jkg of CAPE, that’s pretty unstable, the higher the CAPE, typically you end up with more explosive updraft development, but that’s if you have some type of forcing (outflow, cold front, warm front, lee trough, etc View attachment 16211
Its really convective energy at different levels and points for layman terms. For instance SBcape stands for surface based cape which is the convective energy starting at ground level. DCape is downdraft cape which us used to determine the strength of downdrafts. Presence of MLCape with low SBcape tells you that there is a cap and any convection at that point would be elevated.I notice several CAPE values at the bottom of the chart: SBCAPE, MJCAPE and DCAPE. What is the difference between each? Which should we look first when looking at a sounding?
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Welcome aboard!Thanks for the great information and explanations. I have been seeing these graphs for years and never could quite grasp what it was telling me. After this thread, I have a much better idea. Still not all the way there, but gaining on it.