• 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.

Hungarian storm chase video (nice tornado)

Bill Hark

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While looking for video of the recent Jefferson Davis CO, LA tornadoes, I found this Hungarian storm chase video on Youtube. This group of Hungarian storm chasers forecasted and intercepted a tornado near Gater, Hungary on May 20, 2008. The video is edited with some initial weather data and satellite images, the tornadic supercell and ends with some damage footage. The best tornado footage is from around 6 min 18 sec to 6 min 40 sec.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph0tfV7cOgA


Bill Hark
 
A little overdramatic of a video, but it showed some amazing supercellular structure. At 5:56 it shows one of the most slender but obvious mesocyclones I've ever seen in a video. Awesome stuff.
 
The intro was pretty sweet! I like how they did that. Nice find!

Good editing software, graphics programs, etc. I good video always requires the necessary tools.

The video was good, and creative. Storm footage was pretty good. I love the motion they captured on the wall cloud. Videos like this remind me more of the kinds of views of chasing I'm use to than some of the TV series.

I guess the 'drama' most of you are talking about is simply the music additions. Yeah a little much...if anything, should have had that audio level reduced to merely just background music. Otherwise I think the shots were decent, steady enough and the the vertical pan shot was great. I like that the also gave it an ending...and just didn't cut off with the end of the storm shots.
 
That was pretty awesome. I actually like the dramatics. And I love seeing foreign tornado footage because I can never seem to get it into my head that anybody has tornadoes but us.

The best part...

"Tor-nad-o!.....Huge!.................It was a tornado, wasn't it?"
 
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