• 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.

3/21/07: DISC IL/WI/IA/MO/NE

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I noticed something after thunderstorms moved through this morning. I believe a heat burst occured as the storms moved through the Chicago area after 3:30AM. Temperatures had risen well above 70 degrees after the storms had passed through the Arlington Heights area.

Just an interesting thing I've noticed.
Discuss yesterday's events here.
 
Temperatures are about the same today as they were yesterday. We had quite a few tiny cells move through the area last night. I actually drove through quite an impressive little pea sized hail storm. Small cells kept firing and filling in behind the lead line. I believe we had almost 2" of rain after it was all said and done. They were also very electric. The strike chart was a whiteout in the Quad Cities. I managed to squeeze this one off in between the downpours.
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No heatbursts, but at 11 am on Wednesday the temperature was still in the 36-37 range with Td of about 32. It slowly increased until the warm front passed through and we finally got to experience some Spring in the air. The temperature rocketed to the mid-50's with the Td a degree behind. Temperature maxed at 59 with Td max of 56, around 8 to 9 pm. And lots of electric, little hailers too. We struggle with getting warm fronts active, here, so to have it happening in March is hopefully a good sign for this year.
 
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