Wind hodograph at Glasgow, Montana, on 18/8/'99 at 00 UTC. The crosses indicate vector endings on this map image. For instance, at 150 hPa the wind is from the west (really from WNW or 285) at 40 knots. The wind is westerly throughout the troposphere, but above 50 hPa (about 21 km) it is easterly. The wind shear is rather small in this case at all levels.
Skew T log p diagram at Glasgow, Montana, on 18/8/'99 at 00 UTC. The wind vectors on the right are the same as those on the hodograph above.