• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

01/28/06 Newton KS landspout

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I remember quite a bit of discussion about this event stemming from the news article accounts of the "funnel" emanating from clear sky, which conjured up an image in my mind of this:

dust-devil.jpg


However, NWS Wichita has put up a page about the event which confirms that it WAS associated with a convective cloud (albeit a nonsupercellular one) and therefore was a true tornado.

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/scripts/viewst...MBER=2006012900

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That's interesting. I was following this from the UK, as several times a year we get (generally) weak tornadoes developing in slack airflows, usually with little capping, and fairly steep low-level lapse rates.

On 1st August, such conditions were present across southern England, and myself along with other TORRO colleagues forecast the chance of such tornadoes (and I like to call them tornadoes as opposed to "landspouts", as, whatever their "genesis" method, they are still tornadoes!)...in the event, just one tornado was reported, but many spectacular funnel clouds were seen and photographed...see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1770 or http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/image...r_gallery.shtml
 
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