• 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.

5/7/07 REPORTS: TX, OK

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I thought I would start a reports thread for yesterday. I was chasing the storm that started over Denton. I got there kind of late, so I missed the wall cloud. I chased the storm east on 380, then north up 377. Just north of Pilot Point, I stopped to shoot some lightning as the storms were dieing:

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After coming home to Garland and going back to bed, I got woken up around 1 am to more storms firing in the Dallas area. I got back up, and shot for a few hours:

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Thanks,

James

Langford Photography
http://www.langfordphotography.com
 
My photos aren't nearly as nice as James', but here's what I got. I went north on 35 and intercepted the storm just north of denton that had a really nasty rain and hail core. I observed some slight rotation and rising scud in the lowerings pictured below as well as some amazing lightning and heavy rains. Once this decayed a bit, I went west on 380 and got the storm in Decatur right before it disappeared from radar as well.. here are some video captures from my camcorder. Sorry about the poor quality, my transfer software is aweful..
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Paul
 
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Hi,

We were inside the core of the storm tha began in Denton county and chased it northeast to Sherman. Made a wrong turn and missed the wall cloud. Some incredible lightning "cannon" and power transformer glows here. Now what was interesting was one transformer glow that lasted about 5 seconds over a few hundred metre length. Was it strong winds? It was near the shear region within the storm although can't tell exactly.

Had driven in hail to less than the size of golf balls in the core and torrential rain.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara
 
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Here are some screen grabs and video from tower lightning in OKC on May 7.

http://stormhighway.com/may72007.shtml

For the second time, I observed 'incomplete leaders' eminating from the towers during anvil crawlers overhead. These were the 'start' of upward lightning discharges that did not make it to full connection in the cloud. Anvil crawlers seem to be the main triggers for tower lightning, as they 'pull' leaders off of the towers below. Some leaders make it, others don't.

If you watch the video on the above page, you can clearly hear the short, abruptly-ending thunder from the leaders, followed by the main thunder from the anvil crawlers.

Hopefully the 35mm slides will show these leaders, the slides will be developed next week.
 
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