• 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.

2005 Ohio Severe Weather Symposium Presentations Online

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Hey everyone,

For anyone interested, some of the actual presentations that were given at the 2005 Ohio Severe Weather Symposium are available to view online for free. The link to it is:

http://geog-www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/metclub...symposium_2005/

From this link you will be able to access the presentations to:

Robin Belton-Gerhardt - Meteorologist, Wilmington, OH NWSFO
Dr. Harold Brooks - NSSL
Dr. Louis Uccellini - Director of NCEP
Dan McCarthy - WCM of Storm Prediction Center
Dr. Josh Wurman - Center for Severe Weather Research

I want to thank all of you that were able to make it to the conference and I hope you will come back next year for the 10th Anniversary Symposium.
 
Awesome thanks alot. I would like to say it was a wonderful conference indeed. I had alot of fun.
 
Cool presentations! I especially liked Dr. Wurman's PDF... Some VERY interesting things in there... I'm particularly amazed by his May 29th 2004 Geary OK radar imagery... Measuring NON-TORNADIC winds of 179mph at 7m above ground (and 195mph at 12m) is incredible. Well, I suppose it's not necessarily "non-tornadic", but it doesn't seem to be a true tornado, so it may be more of a tornadocyclone or mesocyclone-on-the-ground type of deal. Whatever the case, it's amazing. It was also neat to see DOW imagery from forest fires and hurricanes. Interesting to read about his deep skepticism regarding hurricane wind speeds (e.g. winds in Ivan compared to F0, MAYBE F1, tornadoes, certainly not supportive of the >100mph winds thought to be present).
 
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