Problem with CONDUIT grib files and WRF

Hello (Steve?),
        As of the Jan 4 6Z runs, I've been unable to initialize the WRF
model using the CONDUIT ETA212 grib files (or the GFS).  It appears that
the problem is that the files since the 4th, the times are out of order in
the file and the WRF Standard Initialization can't handle that.
Previously, the grib file fieldswould be ordered in time.  Gempak decoding
works fine however.  I recall that ncep was going to fool with the way
files were put into the CONDUIT stream.  So is this a problem with the
WRFSI or with NCEP?  In the mean time, is there a simple way to reorder
the grib files?  Thanks. 
Mike

(I will also send this message to the WRF people.)

Some examples: 

a file from this summer:

1474:35553794:d=04072200:SPFH:kpds5=51:kpds6=100:kpds7=425:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:425
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1475:35577752:d=04072200:UGRD:kpds5=33:kpds6=100:kpds7=425:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:425
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1476:35604694:d=04072200:VGRD:kpds5=34:kpds6=100:kpds7=425:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:425
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1477:35631636:d=04072200:TKE:kpds5=158:kpds6=100:kpds7=425:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:425
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1478:35652612:d=04072200:CLWMR:kpds5=153:kpds6=100:kpds7=425:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:425
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1479:35673588:d=04072200:CICE:kpds5=58:kpds6=100:kpds7=425:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:425
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1480:35691580:d=04072200:HGT:kpds5=7:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1481:35730454:d=04072200:TMP:kpds5=11:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1482:35754412:d=04072200:RH:kpds5=52:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1483:35775388:d=04072200:SPFH:kpds5=51:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1484:35799346:d=04072200:UGRD:kpds5=33:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1485:35826288:d=04072200:VGRD:kpds5=34:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1486:35853230:d=04072200:TKE:kpds5=158:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1487:35874206:d=04072200:CLWMR:kpds5=153:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
1488:35901148:d=04072200:CICE:kpds5=58:kpds6=100:kpds7=450:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:450
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0

A file from today:

861:21427952:d=05010912:TKE:kpds5=158:kpds6=100:kpds7=75:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:75
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
862:21451910:d=05010912:HGT:kpds5=7:kpds6=100:kpds7=525:TR=0:P1=3:P2=0:TimeU=1:525
mb:3hr fcst:NAve=0
863:21490784:d=05010912:HGT:kpds5=7:kpds6=100:kpds7=875:TR=0:P1=0:P2=0:TimeU=1:875
mb:anl:NAve=0
864:21526676:d=05010912:CICE:kpds5=58:kpds6=100:kpds7=75:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:75
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
865:21547652:d=05010912:LFTX:kpds5=131:kpds6=101:kpds7=12900:TR=0:P1=9:P2=0:TimeU=1:500-1000
mb:9hr fcst:NAve=0
866:21571610:d=05010912:TMP:kpds5=11:kpds6=100:kpds7=525:TR=0:P1=3:P2=0:TimeU=1:525
mb:3hr fcst:NAve=0
867:21598552:d=05010912:LAND:kpds5=81:kpds6=1:kpds7=0:TR=0:P1=9:P2=0:TimeU=1:sfc:9hr
fcst:NAve=0
868:21601630:d=05010912:HGT:kpds5=7:kpds6=100:kpds7=100:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:100
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
869:21643488:d=05010912:RH:kpds5=52:kpds6=100:kpds7=525:TR=0:P1=3:P2=0:TimeU=1:525
mb:3hr fcst:NAve=0
870:21664464:d=05010912:TMP:kpds5=11:kpds6=100:kpds7=875:TR=0:P1=0:P2=0:TimeU=1:875
mb:anl:NAve=0
871:21691406:d=05010912:SPFH:kpds5=51:kpds6=100:kpds7=525:TR=0:P1=3:P2=0:TimeU=1:525
mb:3hr fcst:NAve=0
872:21715364:d=05010912:PRES:kpds5=1:kpds6=109:kpds7=1:TR=0:P1=9:P2=0:TimeU=1:hybrid
lev 1:9hr fcst:NAve=0
873:21739322:d=05010912:TMP:kpds5=11:kpds6=100:kpds7=100:TR=0:P1=6:P2=0:TimeU=1:100
mb:6hr fcst:NAve=0
874:21763280:d=05010912:RH:kpds5=52:kpds6=100:kpds7=875:TR=0:P1=0:P2=0:TimeU=1:875
mb:anl:NAve=0

--
Mike Leuthold
Atmospheric Sciences/Institute of Atmospheric Physics
University of Arizona
address@hidden
520-621-2863

"Is there some difference between the despotism of the monarch and 
 the despotism of the multitude?"

Edmund Burke