• 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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I ran across these yesterday, though I'm sure they've been available for a long time.

2004 Severe Local Storms Conference --> http://ams.confex.com/ams/11aram22sls/tech...xpanded_230.htm

Many of the presentations are available to view online (they're denoted by the blue and green circle). You just need to download the necessary web media player, but it'll tell you about that if you don't already have it installed. At any rate, there's lots to learn if you (like myself) weren't able to go to the actual SLS conference. Presentations include those from many that should be familiar to those who chase or follow severe weather operations and/or research, including Bluestein, Wurman, Scharfenberg, Stumpf, Marshall, Lon Curtis, Edwards, Brooks, Askelson, Davies-Jones, Burgess, Wicker, Bookbinder (what ever happened to him? He used to post here more often), Dial, Guyer, Banacos, Markowski, etc.

You can go to http://ams.confex.com/ams/htsearch.cgi and search other conferences for recorded presentations as well. Just something to do if you feel like getting up to speed on some of the latest severe weather and tornado research and studies.
 
Since the Fujita scale was recently under debate, you can view Tim Marshall's presentation on the Enhanced Fujita scale given at SLS at http://ams.confex.com/ams/11aram22sls/tech...paper_81090.htm .

It is interesting that the EF scale is proposed to go from EF0 to EF5, but with EF5 indicating winds >200mph. This would imply an infinite upper-bound, much like Cat 5 hurricanes. Work has shown that homes can be competely destroyed with winds near 160-180mph, much less than the F-scale indicated 260+ mph winds necessary.
 
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