Developing a handy little program

[Sam Kennedy]

I've just made a handy little program where you type in the CAPE value of a location, and it estimates the updraft speed and the size of the hail using the wmax equation. I was wondering what other equations I could use to make this program more useful, like including LI, EHI and shear?

Here is sample output of what I have so far:

Samsta's Wmax Calculator
Enter CAPE value: 2200
Updraft = 33.166247903554 m/s
2.5 inch hail

 

[rdale]

What exactly is the purpose of the program? That might help us suggest things to add

 

[Sam Kennedy]

I'm not sure it has a purpose, it just does equations and displays the data instead of you having to do all of them by hand.

 

[Dennis Sherrod]

I'm not sure it has a purpose, it just does equations and displays the data instead of you having to do all of them by hand.

I am interested. It would be interesting to see how this compares when in the field in relation to what is actually there. Sa, have you done any tests to compare?

 

[Sam Kennedy]

I made it nearly 1 hour ago, so not yet

 

[rdale]

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=17678