Quote Originally Posted by parabrave View Post
So this is bad:

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/anal...13N_88.82W.png

And this is not so bad?

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/anal...73N_89.30W.png

And this is??

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/anal...95N_89.44W.png
The first one you'd have a hard time getting severe weather and the other two forget about it. Just ain't happening. Take the middle one for example. You see how all of the wind barbs are basically pointing the same direction as you go from bottom to top? That's indicating unidirectional wind flow (out of the SW here) as you go up in altitude. You want turning with height. Ideally, at the bottom you want winds out of the SE at the surface and veering around to the west or NW at the top. Also look at the right with all the numbers. You will see a couple that end in CIN. That's convective inhibition, or a cap. Anything over 150 is a strong cap. 250 like you see here would take a nuke to break.

If you're interested or just extremely bored, go our storm chasing team YouTube page (NMSCAS) and search for my video series and find video 3. Thats the one that breaks down several of the severe parameters and what to look for on these soundings. Hell, give all five of them a listen to if you like. Videos 3-5 are probably the best.