• 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.

11/29/2006 REPORTS: TX

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After watching the front move in and seeing a few storms starting to fire off out west, we decieded to leave Austin around 2:30 and head north. About 30min outside of Austin there were a couple of cells that popped up showing some promise near the Temple/Waco area so that became our target zone. As luck would have it those storms never really became orginized so we were left with alot of rain and some small hail. Radar was showing another line starting to fire around the Eastland area which was about and hour from our locataion as well as a cluster of cells that fired off west of us. We chose to head to the the new line and monitor as we progressed. As mother nature would have it once again it fizzeled out. With two let downs we called it a night an headed home. I did get one photo of the first cell we were watching.

 
I watched a small, isolated storm approach Denton County around 19z and followed it north. In the northwest corner of the county, the storm organized a little and presented faint striations around the updraft tower. When scud drifted up to the smooth base and began attaching, I lifted my camcorder out of its case for the first time in what seems like years. This was about 2130z and happened almost on the Denton/Cooke county line. Then the cell turned outflow-dominated and fell apart.

I turned back for Denton to unload my gear before the rain and cold air arrived.
 
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