Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak 3/27/1994 Sounding

sounding hodograph

Figure 2a. Centreville, AL (CKL) sounding and hodograph at 1200 UTC on 27 March 1994.

Figure 2a. Centreville, AL (CKL) sounding and hodograph at 1200 UTC on 27 March 1994.

OBSERVED SOUNDING PARAMETERS 
for Centreville, AL March 27, 1994 at 1200 UTC 
 
CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL 
K-Index............  31		        B+............. 1193 J/Kg 
Precip Water.......  1.61 in.	        B-.............    0 J/Kg 
Showalter Index....  1		        Max UVV........   49 m/s 
LI................. -4		        Cap Strength...  0.2  C 
LPL..(PMAX)........1919 ft/ 925 mb	Total Totals...   46 
 
Tropopause.........  45000 ft. 	        Sweat Index....  353 
Equilibrium Level..  40100 ft.	        700-500mb LR...  6.2  C/km 
Max Parcel Level...  50300 ft. 
Wet-Bulb Zero......  11500 ft.	        TEI( 800- 750).  9.9  C 
 
WIND / STORM TYPE 
Mean Wind (0-6Km).. 235/ 43 kts	        SR Helicity (0-3Km).. 435 (M/S)ï¿½ 
Storm Motion....... 265/ 33 kts	        Pos Shear   (0-2Km).. 11 (10-3 S-1) 
				        SR Dir Shr  (0-3km).. 101  
BRN................   11 
BRN Shear..........  111 (M/S)ï¿½	        Energy/Helicity Index......  3.26