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  • 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.

11/15/06 REPORTS: FL

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Just go back home from a long 2 days. We were on the supercells in the Florida Panhandle and were so very close to seeing the Tornado near Crestview, Florida. We observed a supercell coming off the Gulf of Mexico take shape in the matter of minutes as it passed by us. We observed rapidly rising scud and definite rotation and knew it was about to tornado. The only problem was it was moving NE at 60mph so there was no way in hell to keep up with it. It later did put down a tornado near Crestview. Overall we saw around 6 supercells in front of the main line and each time they were very close to putting down a tornado in front of us and each time they did just minutes after blasting by us. This chase for me was kind of different because at times I felt like I was chasing a Hurricane. There were bands of stretched elongated storms with amazing shear zipping by overhead extremely fast. I have not seen clouds zipping overhead so fast since being in the eyewall of Hurricane Charley. It was hard to see the supercell coming with all the low level clouds in the way but the radar confirmed it coming then we would have about 5 minutes of watching it before it was gone and then we would position ourselves in front of the next supercell coming. :)

Overall saw 6 supercells that were all tornado warned along Hwy.98 and I-10 in the Florida Panhandle. The Lightning was lame but the strong winds and fast moving clouds overhead made up for it.

Mike Theiss
UltimateChase.com
 
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