• 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.

2024-04-25 EVENT: TX/KS/OK/NE/CO

Here's the 17Z OK Mesonet data--you can make out the dryline to the W and the warm front across NE OK.

I had to add 17Z METAR to points outside the OK border to get smooth, sensible contours across the entire map area. But inside the OK border it's just the OK Mesonet data.

No boundaries are evident in this display... :)

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Surface low is really starting to deepen as mid/upper jet begins to cross into the lee of the Rockies. Down to 998mb near LaJunta, CO. The warm front shows up nicely on vis satellite. Really like the insolation we are getting over western Kansas. So far, things look to be headed in the right direction.
 
Low DP's and cap seems to be nuking things ATM. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next two hours.

Yet another potentially "insane" daytime event that busted. Us "at home" chasers can now take a deep breath. I don't remember another year in over 36 years of chasing that had so many fails. I can only **guess** some drought-related (EML) element is messing with things or forecasting is retrograding.

Postmortem time.
 
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Low DP's and cap seems to be nuking things ATM. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next two hours.

Yet another potentially "insane" daytime event that busted. Us "at home" chasers can now take a deep breath. I don't remember another year in over 36 years of chasing that had so many fails. I can only **guess** some drought-related (EML) element is messing with things or forecasting is retrograding.

Postmortem time.

EML + late trough + it seemed like the trough kinda flabbed out a bit rather than tightened as it moved Eastwards? I'm pretty inexperienced so could be well wrong!
 
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