• 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.

05/05/2007 NOW: NE, KS, OK, TX

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Tom, Ed, and I are sitting just outside Ransom, Kansas in very strong southerly winds as cu is flying by over our heads. We look to be just east of the dryline which appears to be moving eastward. PDS tornado watch out from our point northward to I-80. Things look to get cranking here soon...
 
An isolated cell has formed over WRN Norton County, KS. Other radar echoes are beginning to pop up on the radar S from that location, down across the Ness and Hodgeman County areas, though these are very weak echoes for now. Looks like things are getting ready to get underway again.
 
SPC: <95% probablility of significant tornadoes. wow. i have never seen a probability that high.

the cell that went up NW of Hill City looks like its weakening. i'm at work, so i will not be out today. i'm not into the virtual chase blah blah but if i were out i would be in dodge city waiting for my storm.

with initiation this early, hopefully people in the paths of todays tornadoes will be aware of the situation and take care of buisness. good luck to all going out today. be safe.
 
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Anyone else not thrilled with the backed mid-level flow? I'm not. Watching cell w of Norton now.
 
Storms Now Kansas

Their is a broken line of storms starting to build slowly from Norton county southward toward DDC. The 1KM visible shows towering cu NW-NE & SE of DDC as of 11:30 am. Per ruc and DDC radar loop and SPC hourly Mesoscale the area around DDC looks explosive. Craven is now over 90 now in the DDC area.

The other area that also looks great is from McCook NE to Grand Island area.

The third area for explosive tornadoic storms is TX/OK border from Woodward NW OK southward to NW TX near ABI this area should go by 21Z.

Please be very careful today their will be Violent tornados before and after dark.
 
I'm currently sitting in Russell, KS. We're sitting in an environment with adequate large scale forcing. Cells are beginning to fire from Dodge City to Oakley and NE. Likely won't have Wifi much longer, but looks to be a significnat event given shear parameters, etc. in Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska.
 
We're currently sitting just outside of Damar, KS (east/southeast of Hill City). Eyeing this northern storm ahead of the line. It looks severely sheared right now and may elect to let it go and drop south back to I-70 to get ahead of developing line.
 
storms in SW KS appear to be going linear at lest for now. If I were chasing in real life, I'd be going for the OK/KS border. Storms appear to be more isolated in that area.
 
gorgeous tornadic supercell already going in far western custer county in central nebraska south of arnold, nebraska. great hook and strong rotation on 0.5° srv slice from klnx radar.
 
Storm west of Broken Bow is now tornado warned. Has a pretty nice couplet on velocities and a nice core with baseball sized hail reported by the NWS. I'm wondering if the storm firing up to the south is going to disrupt it, though.
 
Cells now firing south along the dryline into the ne TX Panhandle. If I were chasing (;) Ryan) I'd be waiting in Ashland with data now to see how the storms develop before racing off after one. Might not have to move much at all.
 
Getting some reports on local radio of power lines down around Arnold, NE. very near Hiways 92 & 47 junction
 
I am about to pick up my wife from work and get a VERY late start to the day. We will likely be headed to the Woodward area in the hopes that a tail end charlie or right split will still be reachable. Tucumcari profiler shows very strong WSWly mid and upper level flow increasing over the past few hours. I still don't think a long track tornado or two is out of the question here in Oklahoma...the question is will we get there in time?
 
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