• 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.

Explosive isolated supercell over Slovenia, June 27th 2008

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Hey all,

I wanted to share my chase account of a great event few days ago, when we finally got a nice isolated supercell also here in Slovenia. There were quite impressive conditions with extreme instability over 3000 MLCAPE and almost 40kt shear. What was the most impressive thing with this supercell was its incredibly fast formation. It initiated along the OFB from early afternoon MCS over eastern Slovenia and in less than 10min it rised from single Cu tower into the great structure with massive backsheared anvil and overshooting top. It drop severe hail up to 5cm (2in) in diameter. As I live on the SW part of the country and had been working late, I had no time to go in front of it, not to mention my friend called me when I saw OT that he is "enjoying" the sound blast in the main hailcore and that highway he was with the car was the only way to come in front, so I let it go. Buit LL conditions were not that impressive, so I didn't bother to making a core punch, so I stayed on the west side to have nice view over the whole structure. And for those who chased in LA, AR and TN would know about what areas I am talking about, hilly terrain with trees.

So here are some images, the rest can be found on the link at the end.

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More images here: http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=253
 
Marko, I'm flying out to Slovenia right now. Can I stay at your place? Just joking. :D

Thanks for sharing such stunning photos. It's interesting to see such convective mayhem in other places around the world.
 
Wow Marko,
Very nice shots of this supercell ! I like the structure and the colours in the pictures.
On June 27th, more parts of central and southeastern Europe had it's share of severe storms:

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27 June 2008, 17:30 UTC.

Your storm(s) can easily be detected on the sat-image!
 
The one to the south of there looks like it has a little hook (Bosnia? My geography stinks ...)
 
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