• 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.

Cozad, Nebraska, struck by heat burst

Thats interesting, i remember reading about one really extreme event in texas where the temps rose over 100 and winds were 80+ mph. I dont remember when or what town, but that has to be a really weird experience.
 
Very interesting! Back in 2004 we had one here in Lincoln, Nebraska- and I had never even heard of them before that night. It was around 11:00 at night, it was in the mid 70's outside until this storm rolled in- we had insane wind, I don't know officially what speed it was but we had debris flying around and there was minor roof damage to the houses in the area, and the temperature rose within just a couple of minutes to over 90 degrees (my thermometer read 92 when I checked it).
 
I remember Omaha having one in the late 90s I think it was. Reached I believe 97 early in the morning, like 7 a.m. or something. I don't think it was terribly windy.
 
I think there was a heat burst near Woodward on May 22 this year...seems like I remember hearing Roboto mumbling something about strong winds and a temperature increase with a dying storm. Really freaky example of compressional warming in a collapsing storm :cool:
 
The Oklahoma Climate Survey has done quite a bit with heat bursts courtesy of their mesonet. I recall a thesis seminar or two...

Trammell, K. A., 2004: The WSR-88D and environmental characteristics of heat burst producing echoes and their application to heat burst prediction. M.S. Thesis, School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 141 pp.

Only decent online page I found (during a 5 second google search)

http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~heinsel/heatburst/heatburst.html
 
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