• 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.

8-29-05 NOW: Southeastern U.S.

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Here is Seneca, SC, there have been 6 tornado warnings within 75 miles of here in the last hour. It seems like these storms are better organized than previous hurricane-induced tubes. Is there anyone out there close by that is going to try and chase these? Right now (5:20PM EST) a nasty looking cell is heading toward the Athens, Ga area, but there seems to be no end to them. BTW - Seneca is in the NW tip of SC, 60 miles from Athens, GA, or 6 miles from Clemson. these are tough to chase, because the forward movement is 45-55 mph, and they are usually HP. Anyway, here I go, we'll see what happens.
 
Hi Steve,

My chase partner and I drove down from Huntsville Monday morning to chase Katrina's outer rainbands. We ended up just east of Montgomery, AL from 2:30-5:00 p..m. Numerous cells with warnings propagated north over the area we were in during that time period.

After reviewing some of the video, I believe we caught a couple of well-developed wall clouds, with brief funnels. There are several reports of wind-damage from the cells I was on, which are tagged as "possible tornado" in the SPC storm reports.

We never got into Georgia, as we wanted to get back home before storms began to affect our area. There were some incredible cells over there. Peachtree NWS is reporting 9 tornadoes thus far:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/FFC/PNSFFC

Needless to say, chasing rainband tornadoes in the AL/GA hills is considerably more challenging than Plains supercell chasing.

Tony
 
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