• 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.

Interesting video

Yeah, that's great video..... um, that's been sped up. :rolleyes:
Nice dust devil anyway. I always like watching these... especially those giants in the Southwest.
 
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Yeah, I never really gave it much thought, but its obviously been sped up. Even so, the narrow diameter of the vortex and the pinpoint where it contacts the ground is pretty interesting. I'm sure it had some power. We get them in southern KY but you can't see them-- only their effects. I once watched one of these move through a cemetary and it picked up a fairly heavy plastic wreath and quickly carried it upwards about 50-75 feet. Weird.
 
I don't really think this is sped up. I've seen quite a few when chasing some of them in Arizona. If you get a real close view of a tight dustdevel like this one you will notice that they are really quite intense and can spin really fast.
 
I believe it just seems like it has been sped up because of the camera recording with a high shutter speed. Look at the people moving in the background, their movement seems natural to me. I've seen numerous, realtime videoclips of dust devils approaching the rotational windspeed displayed here. Windspeeds exceeding 100mph have been meassured in dust devils by scientific equipment. One dust devil, wich damaged a storage yard, had inferred winds approaching 150 mph. LOVE dust devils though, thanks for the link.
 
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It's not sped up. For one thing if it was the camera movement would be much more noticeable since it's handheld and they are walking around. I see them out here on the caprock like that all the time. Usually a lot bigger. I saw one one day I actually chased it for 20 minutes across the fields. I was royally pissed I didn't have my camera with me because it looked like a miniature version of the last tornado in Twister. It was probably a good 30 feet across.

If you ever have a down day out chasing in May and it's hot, you'll find plenty of them around the Lubbock area.
 
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