010914 Ron Brown Radar and Sounding Operations Summary

The C-band radar operated contnuously without any significant 
problems.  Similar
to yesterday, it was an active weather day in the vicinity of the radar up
through about 12Z.  A number of cell complexes with intense vertical structure
(30 dBZ to > 8 km) and visible lightning were observed.  After sunrise,
convective activity slowly decreased and my mid-morning, we were left with only
a few scattered echos.  The 20Z sounding should a significant near-surface
inversion.

6 sondes were launched.  The 04Z and 08Z sondes stopped sending data above 500
mb (one of these passed through a rain cell).  The 12 and 16Z sondes did not
return winds above the surface. CAPE values ranged from about 1100-1800 j/kg in
soundings where this parameter could be calculated.  Similar to the 
last several
days, the trend was for generally decreasing CAPE as the day progressed.