• 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.

2022-05-13 REPORTS: IL/KS/OK

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Macomb, IL
I did not really plan on chasing today, however I had been watching this storm system move across the US and it had been extraordinarily hot here recently (hit 96 yesterday and 94 today). I was looking to get out of the house and into some cooler weather, so around 3pm I noticed a boundary on KDVN and visible satellite that was oriented from N to S along highway 67 in Western IL. There was a high amount of instability today, however with temperatures in the lower to mid 90s along with dew points being around 60, I figured damaging wind gusts would be the primary threat of these storms.

One storm fired up near Alexis in Warren County and another near Good Hope in McDonough County. Being only about 10 minutes from my house I decided to go out and give it a look. It quickly attained a severe thunderstorm warning, so I thought, fun, hail, can go play in that. Then I noticed a plume of dust on the ground that started tilting upward and I pulled over and observed, and recognized it to be a landspout tornado. Pretty soon another report came out further north of another one and tornado warnings started going off on both storms. I witnessed a 8 minute landspout tornado NW of Good Hope, IL near Sciota, IL in McDonough County around 4:54 to 5:02pm.

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This moved from SW to NE and then back to the SW before dissipating. Another possible landspout formed on the flank of it later on, however I was unable to discern whether it was an actual spout, despite having a compact area of rotation at the surface vs the numerous gustnadoes I saw:

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I encountered hail over half dollar size near Good Hope and Macomb on my way back home. I then set up for the evening sunset and mammatus show. I forgot my tripod head at home, so I was not able to get much lightning sadly.

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At the end of the day after only driving around the countryside near home, it was a really solid chase day for having 0 expectations and encountering a decent landspout tornado along with good storm structure, large hail, high winds, mammatus, rainbow, and excellent sunset.
 
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