• 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.

8/22/07 REPORTS: CO/WY/NE/KS

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Targeted Cheyenne, WY yesterday and made it up in time to catch the monster that rolled of the Cheyenne Ridge. The cell showed great signs of rotation but the low level shear was just not strong enough to keep the storm from going outflow. I chased with Dann Cianca and thanks goes out to Mike O'Keeffe for nowcasting.

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I watched a nice updraft go up east of my house, and followed it to downtown KC, where I sat in traffic for about an hour, watching it fizzle. After heading west on I-670 it started to rain, and I happened to look back behind me and noticed a perfect rainbow over the skyscrapers in downtown KC. I shot this first one driving west and by the time I turned around, it wasn't as good, but looked very cool over the skyscrapers, with yet another updraft collapsing pretty close to downtown.

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Golfball hail west of HW71 at NE/CO border

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This storm yielded golfball+ size hail that fell for up to 20 minutes just south of Bushnell, NE. This was the second time I could hear them whistling as they fell - an erie sound, but cool to experience! One hit my dashboard and splattered the car with ice. Another hit my arm and caused a big bruise. We had one stone that was the size of a popcan top. Many had spikes like the one above.
 
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