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Scott and Steve, I have found that when I allow 72 times to be stored in the surface file with sfmetr (using the 20 minute obs), the string lengths defined in sfchck.f for the times in the head*132 and string*132 are too short. I increased these 2 strings to 512 characters. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support