• 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.

2011-04-23 FCST: OK/TX/AR/MO/TN/KY

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Wow absolutely amazed there isnt a thread for today up. Yes the tornado threat is very minimal but the severe threat is just as high as it has been. Will concentrate this thread on N TX and OK.

Basically todays setup is a carbon copy of yesterdays except further S. CF should be oriented NE-SW W of the DFW metroplex by peak heating. SREF ensembles and model forecast soundings suggest CAPE values upwards of 3500 J will exist from Jacksboro NE to Sherman and Durant. 12z Upper Air analysis and wv imagery show another impulse in the mean SWRLY flow aloft across SRN NM to eject out across NWRN TX into C OK by peak heating today. That should provide the neccessary forcing for ascent along the aforementioned boundary to get storms going. 4km NSSL WRF suggests initiation by 21z from Eastland, TX NE thru Decatur to Gainsville. Expect a broken line of storms with embedded supercell structures. Due to the orientation of the wind fields being out of the NE behind the frontal boundary and lack of an identifiable sfc low along the front, not expecting a sig tornado threat. Though adequate CAPE values in the hail growth region suggests baseball hail is likely with any storm along with damaging straight line winds.

After sunset, expect robust isentropic lifting to increase N of the boundary across OK leading to scattered to widespread elevated thunderstorms, esp across C/ERN parts of the state. Elevated CAPE values will be sufficient for storms to become severe overnight.
 
Wow absolutely amazed there isnt a thread for today up. .

Me too Chris. As you said this looks identical to yesterday. RUC is putting some nice convection along the red river. I expect a couple cape bombs to go off in a couple hours from now from around Henrietta, TX. back to the northeast. Looks like HP will be the mode again today which makes for dangerous chasing when tornadoes start to get involved.

My target as of now is my backyard, Sadler, TX. Nice options in every direction from here.
 
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