• 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.

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I was trying to find out why we had an outbreak 3 days in a row. why did the system produce three consecutive outbreaks? Did the system get blocked, was it moving very slowly, what happened?
 
As the main trough dug in from the west, the low became a "cut-off" low, tearing away from the main branch of the jetstream. With extremely strong speed maxes wrapping around the low consecutive days (up to 80/90kst in some areas), outbreaks of supercells and tornadoes occurred, and largely in the same areas, because the origin of the energy (cut-off low) didn't move.

In a typical scenario, the same thing happnes except the trough stays with the jet, does its thing, and then kicks back out with the main jet....however last weekend, we had what I call a "pinwheel" powder keg, where the energy separated itself and just wrecked the same areas all weekend.

I'm sure someone with schooling can better explain all this.
 
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