CAPE and sfc-850 mb lapse rate at 18z

Notes:

This data from the storm prediction center shows that a narrow wedge of CAPE values greater than 1000 J/kg and low-level lapse rates greater than 8 degrees C per km developed in the warm sector in central New York and eastern Pennsylvania by early afternoon on the 22nd.

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