• 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.

07/09/09 DISC: ON

Matthew Crowther

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News from a Canadian source:


Yesterday evening a number of tornadic supercells tracked through Northwestern Ontario. Deep in the woods near the small community of Ear Falls, an apparent tornado struck the Fisherman's Cove resort. 2 deaths and five injured were confirmed to our office this morning by local police. A third person is missing and presumed dead. This is a modern fishing resort that is often frequented by Americans. Two well built and modern cabins were destroyed. The three people dead or presumed death were in one cabin that was thrown to the lake. An EC storm surveyor will be on site soon.

Short YouTube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOz8zD_4KWE


The two killed were Americans from OK.

http://www.koco.com/news/20014707/detail.html


 
Ontario Tornado Leaves Two Oklahomans Dead, One Missing

Could hardly believe the extremely sad sense of irony to this story. Three visitors from Oklahoma were staying at a fishing resort in Ear Falls, Ontario when an F2 tornado hit. Two of them died in the storm, and the search continues for a third.

The storm began just southwest of Winnipeg, and gave us some nasty wind gusts and a bit of heavy rain. As it moved off to the east, it gave us a great display of sunset-lit mammatus clouds. I had no idea of how much the storm intensified as it moved over the lake areas, or about the tragedy unfolding beneath it.

Report (via CBC):http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/07/10/mb-tornado-ontario-storms-manitoba.html
Video: http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/eyewitness-video-ear-falls-ontario-tornado

John
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I grew up in Kenora, Ontario, an hour or so southeast of where the storm/tornado hit and find myself shocked to hear of that tornado. It's literally lakes, rock and dense forest up there. It just goes to show that with the right conditions, topography (Canadian Shield) has little effect. I assume those Americans never thought they would see a tornado up there. Very sad. =\
 
Northwest Ontario tornado claims two fatalities

I believe this is the first tornado related deaths in Canada for this year.. what's ironic, check out the news story of where these poor guys were from.



http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/07/10/mb-tornado-ontario-storms-manitoba.html


This was part of a series of tornadic supercells that ranged from north of Winnipeg, way up into far northwest Ontario. This was the same system that spawned numerous twisters across parts of ND the day before.

Rocky&family
 
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