• 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.

5/23/06 NOW: KS / NE / SD

Just as a position update... Me and my crew are sitting just west of Mankato KS right now (in western Jewell county). The updrafts look pretty skinny right now, and anvils aren't very impressive. Actually, there is a little mammatus developing with a cell to our southwest. We're planning on heading east towards Mankato again, then dropping south a little to wait for the cell in east-central Osborn county KS to approach.
 
Chased a bunch today...of um...clouds. Started in North Platte, and am calling it a day in O'Neil, Nebraska.

Just was looking at the latest satellite and radar. Looks like prefrontal cells are firing in N KS, and for the moment they're discrete. However, the cold front appears to be kicking tail eastward, but if I could warp anywhere right now, it would probably be on the inflow on the storm forming in Marshall or Washington counties. One cell appears hookish, but otherwise, the satellite shows things to really be congealing rapidly.
 
Ouch...sorry I jinxed you guys in KS. Last couple of scans show outflow appearance to those cells. Looks like the front is undercutting some of the prefrontal storms and everything looks like it's moving into a linear chain of gunk. All cells are hauling NNE to join the rest of the gunk here in Nebraska. Worse, the KS cells are entering the inflow to the cells in Grand Island, NE, and will likely choke off any tail-end storms forming in that area.
 
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