• 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.

5/15/09 NOW: MO/KS/OK

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There's an interesting outflow boundary forming off west of Kansas City. It is pretty visible off of the KTWX radar. Meanwhile we're heading up to ICT to rest for a bit and then see what develops. There's a cu field that seems to be developing as we get closer, but it's all pretty high based due to the high LCLs around here. It's pretty visible on satellite as well.
 
tornado watch

Stretches all the way from Kansas City to St. Louis.
Very much like 5/13.
Attending KU graduation in Lawrence, KS for stepson so can't chase.
Good luck out there
 
Things starting to look much more convective South of Topeka. Tops just to my West up to 40k visibly low bases. Like the pocket of 150 m/s^2 1 KM Helicity just to my SW. Hopefully something can stay close to, but South of the grunge boundary to the North.
 
right now on grlevel 3 there are all kinds of tvs/shear markers on the edge of the line of storms east of kc. i wonder if something might try to spin up! the storm also shows 3.25" hail but there's no warning?!
 
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Dangerous "train echo" in progress across north KC area. Rainfall rates 2-3"hr. and flash flooding likely.
 
Despite the temptation, I've been hanging here in a McDonnald's parking lot in ICT. The stuff up in the Topeka area looks like it's more of a progressive thing with moderate hail and some winds. I think the real good storms today will be more explosive (and probably need to be caught pretty early on). The intersection of the dry line and cold front down in TX has a nice big puff associated with it on sat now, but I can't make it that far. As such, I'll be sitting tight until something really fires hard near that bubble of highest instability just northwest of here.
 
Well, I am definitely wishing I was over by Alva, OK. Vortex 2 and other research groups all hiding out in Enid, behind homeland hahahah. TWC there also. Setup starting to look great. Crazy amount of instability in the atmosphere...
 
Siting in Medicine Lodge, KS right now watching a few towers go up just to my N. Hopefully this thing doesn't line out right away...Cap seems a little stronger than forecast, so maybe we will get lucky.
 
North of EMP here looking west ... can see some crisp towers getting started, trying to anvil out. These appear to be firing along a prefrontal line. Sitting here for now, expecting explosive development to the west soon.
 
Tornado Warned Storm sout of Mt Sterling, IL Looks like several are on it. Skip Talbot is right under it
 
Looks like NWS has issued a Tornado Warning for Reno Co in Kansas. Looking at radar there does appear to be a nice hook on it with some rotation. Appears to be due west of Andale.

Edit: Allowed to expire. Looks like Tx storms are producing.
 
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