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Anyone care to take a stab at this pirep:

MIA UA /OV ZFP300035/TM 1850/FLUNK/TP UNK/RM ZMATMU251825VT

Can't quite figure out what those remarks mean. I see the date and time, but does the rest of the remark consist of weather qualifiers and phenomena that I am not aware of? I checked it against Aviation Weather Services to no avail. Thanks.
 
ZMA = Miami Center.

TMU = Traffic Management Unit(Flow control)

Sorry, can't say that I know what the numbers mean.
 
So I read is as:

ZMA = Miami Center.

TMU = Traffic Management Unit(Flow control)

25 = Date

1825 = Time

VT = unkown??

What would the TMU tell another pilot reading this pirep? Sorry if this is a stupid quiestion, I just want to understand these better.
 
VT might be the initials of the person/controller who entered the PIREP into the system at ZMA? Was that the entire PIREP seems like it's missing the PIREP part.
 
It was a direct cut and paste out of duats for an earlier flight today. The more I think about it, it does look like some sort of test
 
I'd be inclined to say so. I looked all through the FAA Weather Services book, and various textual weather sheets, and even Google'd the two terms, and results ended up nothing.

The closest thing I found for VT was Vermont in the Weather Services book.
 

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