• 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.

Foreign language tornado/storm videos

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A few nights ago, I stumbled upon an untapped cache of storm video from Japan, and started keeping a notes file with some of those links. It turns out that foreign language-titled videos don't get associated with 'related videos' in English, so many of these I've never seen before. I found a few of these by typing 'lightning' or 'tornado' in Google translate, then searching Youtube in Japanese. The related videos that show up alongside these also seem to offer a long trail of other interesting storm videos. I haven't tried doing this in other languages, but I'd assume you could probably do the same to find videos from other regions/countries.

Tsukuba tornado:
Tsukuba 1
Tsukuba 2
Tsukuba 3

Tornado in Saitama Prefecture, Koshigaya:
Saitama 1
Saitama 2

Close lightning videos from Japan:
Lightning 1
Lightning 2
Lightning 3
Lightning 4
Lightning 5
Lightning 6
 
I found this interesting video of a tornado in France. The one thing I notice about foreign tornado videos is that the tornado could be hitting the building the camera person is filming from and the camera keeps rolling even if the building is getting ripped apart. In this case the building was damaged but nothing too severe after looking at the video.

 
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