• 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.

2023-06-24 REPORTS: MN/IA

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It has been a while since I've had anything worth making a report about. Whether due to a lot of Mother Nature being a failure, chase day screw-ups on my part, and mistimed vacations its been a terrible last three years of attempted chasing for me. I finally caught a break on a day with little instability or overall shear. The setup had a warm front extending north-east from a upper low roughly 100 miles to the sw. Two low-topped micro supercells attached themselves to this warm front and lifted north with it, the precip cores on these storms were only a few miles across. My storm actually became a cyclic tornado producer with at least three tornado cycles of which I caught the last two. I finally saw two simultaneous tornados at once which is a first for me, one of which extended out horizontally from the inflow band and persisted for quite awhile. These were all weak but very visible tornadoes and even though one touches down on top of a farmstead in my video, it appears to cause little damage fortunately. Overall a great something from nothing day for me.

 
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