Our initial assessment of the hail threat was from the 12z Corpus Christi sounding. We used it to assess hail growth zone height by sampling the -10C, -20C, and -30C heights AGL (this is approximately between 300mb and 500mb). The problem is this data is now 7 hours old and there are spatial limitations too, since this observation was taken almost 200 miles away from the storm we are particularly interested in. NUCAPS soundings would improve our assessment spatially since there is no sounding sight near our area of interest today. Also, the satellite pass that would provide NUCAPS data is timely, since it falls between radiosonde observation times. 300mb to 500mb is also the portion of the atmosphere that NUCAPS performs the best due to higher information content. This is very important in rapidly changing environments.
-dryadiabat
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