Thunderstorm Ingredients?

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mattyj46
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Thunderstorm Ingredients?

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I'm just wondering if anyone knows a website or has a few paragraphs saved where it tells you all the ingredients for creating a thunderstorm (CAPE etc)?

This would be much appreicated.

Thanks
Achten
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Re: Thunderstorm Ingredients?

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NZstorm
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Re: Thunderstorm Ingredients?

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Learn up on skew-t diagrams. The skew-t will help give you a good understanding how instability works.