• 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.

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Dan Cook

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Does anyone here use this service for reporting severe/winter weather? I signed up to a be a "snow spotter" for Davenport, and they told me that a good way to report things would be through eSpotter. So yesterday I filled out and sent a report for 2 inches of snow that fell, since they want all records of decent snowfall (1 inch+). As of now, I don't think they got it as it still wasn't "received" according to eSpotter.

Has anyone else used this? So far, I don't like it.
 
Originally posted by Dan Cook
Does anyone here use this service for reporting severe/winter weather? I signed up to a be a \"snow spotter\" for Davenport, and they told me that a good way to report things would be through eSpotter. So yesterday I filled out and sent a report for 2 inches of snow that fell, since they want all records of decent snowfall (1 inch+). As of now, I don't think they got it as it still wasn't \"received\" according to eSpotter.

If I recall correctly, the "received" reference means that you have received messages FROM the NWS through eSpotter. NWS can broadcast messages through the system either to everyone logged on at the time, to certain counties, or to specific observers.

Chris G.
 
I have used it for a couple years through the STL office, mostly for snow/winter weather reports or for delayed storm reports (as with a hailstorm at 2:00 a.m. in which I immediately phoned in the 1-inch hail at my home, later to find out that golfball hail, which had not been reported to NWS, had caused major damage a couple miles away. I made a delayed report of the larger hail and the damage, which was added to the LSR.)

I would NOT use this method of reporting in a time-urgent situation, i.e. when dangerous weather is occurring and a warning is needed, but it can be useful for verification/documentation purposes or for winter weather reports.
 
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