• 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.

01-29-2013 Tornado Outbreak - MDT Risk Day

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This event is the largest January tornado outbreak in Middle Tennessee on record, and the second largest outbreak on record of any month with 23 tornadoes confirmed. This is just one tornado shy of tying the record of 24 which belongs to the Super Outbreak of 74. Granted they weren't nearly the magnitude of the '74 tornadoes, the tornadoes from this January outbreak had 3 EF2s, 6 EF1s, and the rest EF0s from a QLCS setup.

I figured I'd post this for discussion seeing as these type of events usually discussed much. I've included a link to the SPC Event page for this day. Local media didn't really seem that concerned with this system nor did seem to get any other attention.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/event.php?date=20130129

Surface temps were in the low 70s at night (middle of the night even) ahead of the front with associated QLCS, which pushed through the mid state between 2a-4a. CAPE was in a meager range of 100-150 at best, and 0-1 SRH values of at least 600. The MDT was actually posted for earlier in the day to the west to include western parts of TN while we were in a slight risk. The forecasted hodographs were literally off of the charts. On some you could see maybe a little part of a line. When the front did approach, the embedded supercells were really impressive on radar.

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Here is the only radar grab I got from that event. This was shortly before a tornado touched down outside of Woodbury. That was a fun morning laying around in my bathtub until the QLCS passed through Murfreesboro.

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