Composites of Heavy Rain Producing Elevated Thunderstorms in the Central United States

Figure 11

Composite soundings, with the bottom and top of the temperature inversion preserved, for (a) frontal and (b) nonfrontal case collections where the mean temperature (dew point) trace is solid red (green), with a red (green) envelope for the standard deviation of temperature (dew point), and (c) the same composite soundings, plotted together for frontal (red) and nonfrontal (blue) case collections with winds (plotted in knots on the right) for each.

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