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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION MESSAGE 95-59
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HEADQUARTERS
230 PM EST THUR DECEMBER 21 1995
TO: ALL USERS OF NWS PRODUCTS
FROM: JOSEPH R. BOCCHIERI
CHIEF... SCIENCE AND TRAINING CORE
SUBJECT: TERMINATION OF LFM
THE REPLACEMENT OF THE LIMITED-AREA FINE-MESH MODEL (LFM)
BY THE ETA MODEL WAS BEGUN IN 1993. THESE MODELS HAVE...
RESPECTIVELY... PROVIDED AN EARLY LOOK AT THE SYNOPTIC SCALE
FORECAST. WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ETA MODEL... MOST
PRODUCTS THAT WERE GENERATED FROM THE LFM WERE DERIVED FROM
EITHER THE ETA MODEL OR THE NESTED GRID MODEL (NGM). WHILE
SOME LFM FORECAST PRODUCTS WERE ELIMINATED... A FEW PRODUCTS
WERE TO REMAIN LFM-BASED UNTIL THE CONVERSION WAS COMPLETED.
THAT CONVERSION IS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION 1200 UTC
WEDNESDAY... JANUARY 10... 1996 WHEN THE LFM IS TERMINATED.
AT THAT TIME... ALL LFM DATA AND PRODUCTS WILL NO LONGER BE
AVAILABLE. MESSAGES WITH FURTHER DETAILS WILL FOLLOW.
IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS RELATED TO THE TERMINATION OF THE
LFM... PLEASE CONTACT BRENT BOWER OF THE OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY
AT 301-713-1970.
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