• 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.

7/26/06 NOW: IL

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Interesting storm on some sort of boundary just east of Springfield... Picked up some strong rotation (surprising for weak winds in the atmosphere there, but there is some directional shear) that developed in just two scans, spotters reported funnel, that moved north/northwest(!) and weakened and a new rotation (not as significant) developed in its place just west of Bement. NWS says this is all moving due east, but that's not possible.

Anways the outflow has helped to enhance storm along I-57 north of I-74 with 50-60kt outbounds showing up on leading edge, and what appears to be another rotation developing there too!
 
There are several tornado warnings out for the IL storms now. A pretty good cell near Champaign moving NE has a fresh warning out ahead of it. SPC has pointed out that a few supercells and tornadoes are possible in a recent MD. It will be interesting to see what happens. It looks like Chicago is out of the woods however.
 
The HP supercell that tracked from East central Illinois to West Central Indiana** had reports of a tornado near Hoopeston and a friend of mine observed a rain wrapped wall cloud moving north at 40knots. Neat storm... Hopefully this is a nocturnal thing, would be neat! Great lightning out of the now dying supercellular storm.
 
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