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To assist the battlefield commander, the U.S. Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory has developed a rule-based expert system that can advise weather forecasters on the possibility of thunderstorm activity and other severe weather phenomena. This expert system, the Thunderstorm Intelligence Prediction System (TIPS) , provides expedient conclusions about the weather that are derived from a large sum of data. During the spring and summer thunderstorm season of 1990 TIPS was tested at 14 different sites across the United States.