• 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.

2014-06-07 MISC: IL/MO/TN

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It appears that Saturday June 7 was a legitimate mini-outbreak of tornadoes in Missouri and Illinois. Some of the tornadoes are not in official reports, and like similar events of this type in this region (low-topped convection) it's likely many more occurred that were not observed/reported.

Here are some of the instances of tornadoes from this event that I have found so far:

Owensville, MO tornado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeLnjwODZsw

Red Bud, Illinois great storm structure and tornado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoxE7ksOq0w

Clear slot/rapidly rotating funnel/wall cloud in Christian County, IL:
http://youtu.be/dthLtiUlsVQ

St. Louis (Earth City-Hazelwood), Livingston IL and Highland IL (from ST reports thread):
http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?30605-2014-06-07-REPORTS-IL-MO-TN-KY

Another angle of Earth City-Hazelwood tornado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8LdFtydNmo

St. Peters, MO tornado (also in STL metro, same storm as Earth City tornado):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrVv9H963DM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKyaXwfZ-ug

Hamel, Illinois tornado:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdeejuY9ex8
 
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Here are archived Level III radar images from this event from KLSX. (Click images for large versions). This of the Earth City supercell/tornado:



The storm of the day in the STL area was the Red Bud supercell/tornado, which had the strongest velocity couplet, the best-looking structure and the largest tornado of the event:



The Earth City storm was very close to the St. Louis TWDR site (TSTL), but this data will not be available until later today when the NCDC updates the archives. I'll update with this and the Level II data from the Red Bud, Hamel, Highland and Owensville storms which should also be up later today.
 
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I'm a little curious about that plane that flew through the circulation - I would think someone watching the TWDR would have warned them to change course and circle around. Interesting indeed that there were that many tornadoes with such a modest-appearing setup.
 
Here is the radar from TSTL (St. Louis Terminal Doppler site). This radar is located just across the river next to Highway 370 and was very close to the tornado, 2 miles from it at the start.

 
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