• 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.

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    Sincerely, Jeff D.

5/19/07 REPORTS: MT / ND / MN / SD / NE

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stephanieschweitzer

My fishing was interupted today by some quick forming storms that were moving east across Southern MN this evening. We packed it up and headed in the direction of a really well formed storm just SW of Mankato. We got just about 3 Miles east of Mapleton and could see the hail bands. The hail was between Nickle and Quarter in size, and accompanied by some intense rain and strong wind gusts. Fields were flooded spilling over into the ditches and filling the country roads. Saw a few houses with water up to their doors just south of Mapleton at about 7:30 PM. Chased a storm to around Long Lake for fun...
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Mapleton Streets around 7:30 PM.
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Here are some quick pics from the Montana chase 19th May 2007 - Macca can do the usual blurb of our chase.
After the weakening cell, these storms literally exploded along the boundary and developed at least one though probably more separate mesocyclones (need to verify via radar)

Suspicious bases beneath two strong updrafts. All photographs taken near Roundup, Montana.


Another updraft and suspcious base

Lightning on the way to Miles City, Montana - one of the lightning pictures from a short shooting opportunity

Regards,
Jimmy Deguara
 
We intercepted a nice looking mesocyclone a bit east of Roundup, MT...its probably the same cell Jimmy has on the first pic, just from the different angle. It was amazing how explosive the updrafts were, towers were poping up like nuts! Here are some preview shots:

- explosive updraft:
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- impressive structure a bit later...it was trying with a wall and lil' funnel at one time, too:
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- rainbow at the end:
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We ended up in Glendive now, tomorrow probably targeting southeast MT again I guess.

More on my website in few days: http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/index.php?cat=12
 
Adding Nebraska to the list ... we targeted south-central South Dakota where we expected the nearly stationary front to trigger some scattered, possibly marginally severe convection. It sagged farther south and fired storms in northern Nebraska, some of which became severe. We encountered marble-sized hail west of O'Neill and basically just got some picturesque cume shots. Our first storms in 4 days and hopefully an appetizer to a larger course this coming week.

More on our chase trip on my blog at Roanoke.com.
 
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