• 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.

4/17/07: NOW TX

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jason A.C. Brock
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Jason A.C. Brock

Severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Western into Northwestern and Central Texas till 8pm. Tornado warning already been issued for Lubbock county as storm spotters have seen a brief tornado touchdown. Looks like a lowtopped supercell day with brief spin-ups and landspouts will be possible especially with these initial storms. Later threat may be more of a damaging downburst wind and large hail threat. May be heading SW soon.
 
Landspouts....interesting. I forget exactly what goes into forecasting these. Seems Davies had some info I was reading on that a couple of years ago too. Wasn't it horizontal vorticity that the storm rolls over and ingests that causes these? I should examine this day in more detail as we have 3 landspouts logged. Given these are non supercellular tornadoes. Also I wonder what the state of the art is nowadays in detecting landspouts by radar since they wouldn't have a parent mesocyclone to detect can these be seen on radar at all?
 
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