• 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.

7/28/09 DISC: Surprise northeast KS tornado

Jon Davies

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Veteran storm chaser Doug Nelson sent my wife Shawna some shots of a "surprise" tornado from last Tuesday southwest of Centralia KS near his workshop. With no damage, no other reports, and nothing impressive on radar. I wouldn't have believed it. But Doug is a highly experienced and reliable observer, and he took good pics.

I did a little case study on my blog to try to isolate some ingredients that led to this weak but very interesting surprise:
http://davieswx.blogspot.com/

A subtle boundary and a favorable vertical CAPE environment appeared to be the main ingredients, but you'd never pick this out in real time. An interesting case... thanks Doug!

Jon Davies
 
nice. Make me thing of the old question "does a bear crap in the woods?".
 
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