• 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.

Environmental and Radar Analysis of NWS Tornado Warnings 2016-18

Randy Jennings

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At this year's NWAS conference, Evan Bentley and @Rich Thompson (SPC), Randy Bowers (Norman WFO), Justin Gibbs (WDTB), and Steve Nelson (Peachtree City WFO) are presenting a poster that looks at environtemental and radar signatures associated with verified and false alarm tornado warnings between 2016 and 2019. Some of the interesting findings include 18.5% of confirmed tornado warnings did not have a TDS and that over 25% of the time LE/EM reports do not verify (public 21%, spotter/chaser/nws employee 13%).

Full poster at:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1170358178208538625
 
@rdale You are correct. I was looking at the wrong table when zoomed in typing on my phone. It was 48% of LE/EM that do not confirm vs 40% public and 30% spotter/chader/nws employee.
 
Wait...so "Storm chaser reported tornado" reports are actually totally bogus 30% of the time? Oh, maybe that comes from them being lumped in with "trained" spotters and NWS employees. Still pretty dumb to see that a "human (with training for this) confirmed tornado touchdown" actually cannot be verified sometimes. Perhaps it is due to extremely weak and very short lived tornadoes not doing any visible damage?
 
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