• 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.

5/2/08 DISC: AR/MO/TN/MS/LA/TX/KY/IL/IN/WI/IA/MI

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I thought I'd start off the DISC thread by posting a link to photos of the tornados that occurred yesterday in east Arkansas and the Missouri bootheel, as well as damage photos of Earle Arkansas, taken from an Air Evac helicopter. The link is to the blog of KAIT-8 Chief Meteorologist Ryan Vaughan; obviously, he had a very busy day yesterday. ... Looks like at least EF-4 damage in Earle.

http://ryansmorningblog.blogspot.com

(Ryan says it's fine to post the link here, by the way.)
 
I've been constructing a wikipedia page for this outbreak. There were 81 reports from may 1-2, 7 deaths, extensive wind damage, and 2 tornadoes already rated EF-3 which probably warrants a page. If anyone wants to help construct this page, it would be much appreciated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1-3,_2008_Tornado_Outbreak#May_1_event

There are currently a few erroneous tornado listings in the "list of reported tornadoes" section. I will edit this out later.


Edit: seems like a page was already created. Nevermind.
 
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What a day. Ryan is a good buddy of mine and they were watching our feed from the wrapping up of the meso to the wedge tornado stage. We witnessed it hit two silos and completely obliterate them as well as damage some farm equipment. As soon as I get off of work, I plan on sending the video to Ryan and a few others. Best tornado of my career by far and I'm just thankful that those children riding around on those school buses in Earle were not hit by the tornado when it went through. The storm went from a needle to a wedge in less than a minute. Fascinating to watch.

Also, I talked to an intern at MEG and he told me that the survey was done quickly before the media had crews all over, so they plan to be back out. Ryan sent me some areial photos and I believe that there is a slight chance that a QRT could be called in and a low end F-4 rating could be given. Storm of the day I do believe though.
 
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