• 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.

5/09/06 DISC: North AL

Tony Cook

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As a followup to Dave Gallaher's lone report from North AL on 5/9/2006, looks like Huntsville NWS found two tornado tracks, one adjoining an area of straight-line wind damage. These were associated with a monsterous bow echo which traversed North AL during the late afternoon hours.

NWS HUN Storm Survey for 5/9/2006.
NWS HUN Storm Survey for 5/9/2006

I was watching that bow on radar, and it had several areas of rotation along its leading edge. Both reports are from Northeastern Limestone County.

TonyC
 
I was watching that bow on radar, and it had several areas of rotation along its leading edge. Both reports are from Northeastern Limestone County.
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Thanks, Tony---

Nice to know that those warnings verified on the ground. I'm not certain that the updraft I saw was the same one that produced the warnings, but it was definitely busy. I had been filming an area about a half mile north with a small split, which resembled an RFD* somewhat; when I turned back south, I noted that nearly above my head was a nice hollow circular set of rotating cloud bands that were perhaps twenty or thirty yards wide (this is a hazardous guess, due to the height of the cloudbase). As I was filming this, the heavy rain began to hit and I got into the van, losing video of some of the action. The line itself was moving pretty quickly.

Off topic: Congrats on your captures on 5/5. Great wall cloud... Glad to see your Texas location is paying off. I'm sure you are missing all the trees, hills and winding roads back here.

dave


*Reminded me of some of our mini-supercells, though it was even smaller.
 
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