• 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.

Incredible microburst damage

My God, that IS incredible!
I guess if it were up to me to solve, I'd research the radar archives to see if any kind of storm event could possibly match up to that damage. Just think...if you were hiking amongst those mountain tops...there was absolutely NO place to hide. Each and every tree was down.
I believe that a fellow stormtrack poster from Romania sent similar photos from the mountaintops in Czechslovakia or the surrounding areas earlier this year.
It's hard to imagine such power. I would LOVE to witness that from a safe vantage point....if there is such a place.
 
Incredible!

Looks like pretty intense downburst damage... Using damage indicators from the EF scale, uprooting and snapping softwoods takes a wind speed around 70-130MPH (LB to UB). With the wet soil conditions, I'm sure the winds in the area of downed trees didn't need to be UB, so I think it's safe to estimate that winds were at least 100MPH.
 
Just think...if you were hiking amongst those mountain tops...there was absolutely NO place to hide.

I live about 13 miles as the crow flies from this place. I can't recall any single event that would have caused this. It may have been that I was chasing in OK or TX at the time.

I'm sure the NWS in ABQ is on the case. I'll try to find out just what they come up with.
 
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