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We introduced an experimental prototype in 1998 at the Modernized Product
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Workshop as a way to create new innovative text products. The field
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forecasters picked up on this new approach which, like Smart Tools, uses
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Python to make it extendable and easy to customize to the Local site. They
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explored the use of this technology to create new products as well as to work
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with the legacy text products. This approach became so popular that in August
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2002, the NWS asked FSL in concert with field forecasters to write a set of
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core products as an alternative to the existing products. This was quite an
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undertaking and the first thing we did was to form a Focus Group of about 25
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motivated forecasters who had been working with the text product framework.
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