• 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.

6/30/09 Reports: MT/ND/SD

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One more very impressive storm to wrap up an unbelievably successful June for me. I liked the area along the western ND border with MT, from about Baker to Beach. This worked out perfectly, as storms went up near Glendive and became tornado-warned (funnel cloud sightings and Doppler-indicated). The problem was that we were still motoring north through NW SD and SW ND when the "Hodges" storm was providing all of this fun. (We had stopped at Mount Rushmore briefly after leaving Chadron about 11 a.m.) We went west from Bowman to Baker, had a quick pit stop, drove north on 7, and were greeted by a brand new and impressively structured supercell. We stopped 18 north of Baker and set up, and not three minutes later, a skinny tornado was spawned beneath a large wall cloud which was somewhat obscured by precip. This was a cell which was south of the originally tornado-warned storm farther north, near Hodges. And, this was about as far from any Doppler radar as any place on the Plains. We tried to phone it in to NWS Glasgow, but had no cell service! (We reported the event later from Baker.)

We stayed with the cell as it neared us along the road east to Carlyle. It looked like it meant business again as a new meso area developed just to our north, but surface rotation was not observed. I thought we were in trouble as the road network ran out to the east, and the core was right behind us. We got south to Ollie just as nickel hail began to fall. We followed a rancher into his driveway and he pointed us into his barn! We were safe! And, the storm seemed to lose steam for some reason. We had somehow stumbled upon it at its best. Images here:

http://stormbruiser.com/chase/2009/06/30/june-30-2009-carlyle-mt-tornadic-supercell/

Bill Reid
 
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