• 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.

August 28,1990. Plainfield super tornado

Clayton t gillaspy

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I see all the acknowledged monster tornados mentioned here that are all pretty much high end f-5 monsters among the strongest mentioned are definitely here except for possibly one of the absolute strongest of all time the 1990 Plainfield tornado deserves to be mentioned simply because it was a borderline f-6 and yes I know there is no such thing but this storm possibly was why? Ted fujita estimated it at 318 mph for a short time of its 16 mi path people in its path saw a monster shrouded in a hp cell very similar to the tri-state monster of 1925 Plainfield was stronger than zenia of 74 only Parkersburg Iowa 2008 and a handful of others were possibly stronger since it was never photographed will never know for sure but I live near Plainfield and walked that area several days after it occurred and the damage was apocalyptic some of the worst damage was never photographed but I saw it and the fact that it was moving @50 mph it was incredibly loud it dropped at f-2 strength in within 10 min was approaching f-5 strength cape was off the scale that day at 8000kg lifted index was -14 to -16 it had tremendous energy to form in well enough said it deserves to be in the top 10 or top 20 of most violent of all times
 
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