• 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.

2022-06-05 REPORTS: CO/NE/KS/OK/ID

Matt Hunt

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I just had to share this given its uniqueness! I recently returned to Idaho from my Plains chasecation, and yesterday there was a marginal risk up here for hail & wind. I figured they would be junky looking storms, and CAMs showed widely scattered storms all across the area, so there wasn't much use in picking a specific target, so I just stayed at home and kept an eye on the radar with plans to go after anything good nearby. Mid-afternoon there was a storm to my west that was building and on the verge of being severe, so I set out to it. It did get a severe warning, and it was decent looking, but died shortly after I got to it. I was already satisfied enough with that, but after that round went through, the skies cleared, and it warmed up. New storms formed to the west, and one looked particularly good, so I went back out. As I approached, I couldn't believe the kind of structure I was seeing! This looked like something out on the Plains!

Here in the Magic Valley area, it's actually fantastic terrain to chase, and in some parts there is a grid road network of PAVED roads! But in this case, I went right up to the eastern edge of Box Canyon and watched the storm approach. It developed some nice structure, even including a scuddy lowering/wall cloud, but this was all outflow, moving right to left. I wanted to see what kind of hail this thing had, so I got into position for the core to go right over me. Actually got some decent stones, at least 1.25" on the biggest ones I saw, perhaps even up to 1.5" but I couldn't grab any to measure, and they melted pretty quickly after falling. For a 30 minute drive from home in freakin IDAHO, I'll take it! Check out the structure!

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