• 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.

2017-06-04 REPORTS: IL/MT

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Figured I would create a thread as I had a rather interesting encounter less than 10 miles from my house once again. A storm rapidly went up just to the south of an outflow boundary that was moving south and the storm motion was mostly stationary. I approached from the north side of Maquon on highway 97 where I noticed a high based funnel cloud coming out of the updraft of the storm to the right of the precipitation that was falling. GR had a small hail core on this cell which was surprising given the hot temperatures in the low 90's I expected freezing levels to be very high, but once again, this storm did explode quite fast and even had a pileus cap at one point. The funnel cloud lasted about 5 minutes and had precipitation possibly mixed with dust under it. This is why I can't confirm a landspout touch-down because of the precipitation that was mixing with whatever dust was being kicked up. So I'll call this one a for-sure funnel, possible tornado. Still not bad, to see two instances of this within 2 weeks of each other within 10 miles of the house. So odd....

Sorry for the real shafty quality, all I had was my Iphone and these are zoomed in lol. I had a meeting in Galesburg and literally got on the interstate to follow this thing once I saw it go up. Figured it was worthy of a report section. I leave tomorrow for my 8 day chasecation, so hopefully this is a good sign LOL.

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I have sent the appropriate material over to NWS Lincoln, IL and they are evaluating it. Pretty interesting nonetheless. We don't see too many landspouts around here, so to have 2 in a couple week period is certainly odd.
 
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