• 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.

Archived Weather Maps: Looking for Good Source

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Those of you have put together chase cases or done case studies, where are you getting your maps? I've got a study I want to do that involves a few different tornado days, but the SPC's daily maps archive only provides 7 a.m. maps. I'd like to get a more thorough range across the day. RUC and/or NAM would be nice. I'm particularly interested in surface maps with station obs, but upper atmosphere charts would also be welcome.
 
Bob, check out this thread:

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/sho...-(radar-observations-analysis-soundings-etc.)

I archive all the HPC bulletins and SPC reports myself and convert them into KML files. I then plot these with GPS tracks, and GRIBs from one of the links in that thread in IDV. You can also import satellite images and a bunch of other things in IDV, and even export to KML if you'd rather use Google Earth or Maps to look at things, since IDV is kind of difficult to work in.
 
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