• 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.

Historical views of outlooks, tornado reports etc

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I created a storm chaser web application in 2021 (mentioned previously here) that I have been working with on and off since: StormCenter (previously StormWindow). One of the features I am quite excited about myself is to be able to look at storm history and review how certain days and months panned out in terms of SPC outlook and the resulting amount of tornadoes etc.

In StormCenter I have a section with historical outlooks, tornado reports etc from 2004 until now. One can look at a heatmap of tornadoes per month etc. and see all the details of that day (like if there was a StormTrack thread about the day, for instance). I don't know if it is only me who is geeky about this kind of data but I find it very interesting to look at. I am hoping you guys may as well! If so, please give me some feedback on features you would like to have. For example, I am currently developing a feature to analyze a set date range for every year, like: how has May 20th to May 27th been since 2004.

The chaser map, on which the application is built around, has also been developed further since my last announcement but I had a major blow when Twitter changed their API recently so I can no longer show tweeted photos or tweets in the map - which was a really cool feature :( At the moment, not much is happening but during active days it shows all kinds of reports on the map etc.
 
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