• 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.

2009-03-26 DISC: TX

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I'd be curious to see any radar of when the tornado was actually on the ground near George West. I couldn't see a couplet (or at least nothing looking too potent) on SRV when I was putting in the nowcast earlier, so I'm wondering if there was one later. Here's the official report that came later:

1930 5 ESE GEORGE WEST LIVE OAK TX 2830 9804 BRIEF TOUCH DOWN NEAR I-37 AND HWY 59...REPORT OF 18-WHEELER BLOWN OVER. (CRP)

* I bet there's going to be a lot of discussion over the warning delay with the later Cook county storm.
 
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Just got home...

Started the night out not even planning to chase. There was a SKYWARN seminar here in sherman tonight, so I was attending it. I got a phone call from Jason that said, "there's a tornado on the ground in Muenster", so I hopped up and told the Sherman Fire Chief. About that time, all of the local Ham's jumped up and out the door everyone went. 45 minutes into the presentation.

We flew east to Gainesville and headed on a southwest track to keep from hitting the tornado head on. Saw a lot of rotation around Myra, but nothing that touched the ground.

From then on out, the whole thing was kind of a HP mess. The rotation was rain wrapped, it was dark, and it seemed there wasn't a ton of lightning. We ended up pulling off that storm and pushing fast back to Sherman where we encountered gorilla hail (Softball) and hail that covered the ground.

Not a bad night for not expecting to chase. Sure wish it was during the daylight though.
 
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