• 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.

2003-05-10: MO/IL tornado outbreak

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Surprised no one has started a thread on this day, so I'll go ahead. 6 years ago from today, MO and IL were rocked by a tornado outbreak. I saw my first tornado on this day. Myself and a couple other chasers left Rockford at 8 am and drove to NE MO. Got there just in time as a broken line of supercells were marching northeast. The first one that passed us to the north did not produce much, but we saw another one coming from the Southwest both visually, and on our 9" color TV with news break-ins that looked promising. This storm formed its tornado right near Monroe City, and we were extremely close it it when it formed, and had to bolt eastward to get a better view and to get out of its path. It quickly turned into a beefy wedge that produced F3 damage. It continued on to Palmyra as it roped out and crossed rt. 24. At this point we had to get across the river, and thus lost the storm. Got on a couple other storms on the IL side with rotating wall clouds, but nothing more.

The broken supercells continued to produce in IL, with some local chasers seeing the South Pekin tornado.


Tornado just forming and crossing US24/36 near Monroe City:

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View from the rear window as we drove east:

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F3 at this point:

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Crossing US24 south of Palmyra, MO:

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LSX summary for this tornado: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/event/5-10-03/tor_trac_1.php

LSX event summary: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/event/5-10-03/5-10-03.php
 
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