• 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.

A question of definition

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While chasing last spring I ran across a few things that were different than what I had run across before. In this case I had been following some cells which had strong rotation the whole time but never really produced anything.

One main cell had just passed when I noticed a change in the clouds in the flanking line right behind the main cell. I started shooting some shots and some video from my camera and watched as it wound itself up and started feeding the main cell that had just passed. As this was going on there was a very thin horizontal rope like band that was flowing into the center of this and ended up as a larger funnel in the center of the rotation. In the following picture you can follow the funnel to the end and go horizontal and see some of the remaining rope feeding the funnel. I have a short video that shows this things position to the main cell with a clear slot between. The video was previous to the photos.

I have been told it was everything from a completely separated wall cloud to a separated upflow area. So my question is "What is this thing technically." Sorry if its a stupid question but I am more familiar with the definite storm attributes and this was really different than anything I usually see. I am shooting this facing the storm east of me.

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It looks to me like a new storm was forming right behind the main one, and somehow got itself rotating quickly; I grabbed the cursor and slid the bar to watch the clip in high speed, and the rotation in the new cell is awesome. This new storm seemed to form right off the flank line and to the southwest of the original storm. Possibly even distinct propagation in progress?
 
It looks to me like a new storm was forming right behind the main one, and somehow got itself rotating quickly; I grabbed the cursor and slid the bar to watch the clip in high speed, and the rotation in the new cell is awesome. This new storm seemed to form right off the flank line and to the southwest of the original storm. Possibly even distinct propagation in progress?

My original thoughts had also been that it was a new independent cell but the odd thing was how very small it was and how fast it started its intense rotation which was nearly as fast as it was forming. It just never got very big at all, it would have probably been two miles or less from me. It appeared to be feeding the other cell so some the ideas from other people left me wondering if it was indeed a product of the main cell that had just passed.

Thanks for the input Shane.
 
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