• 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.

June 7-8 1984 Tornado Outbreak

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On the night of June 7 and early morning hours of June 8 1984 a major Tornado Outbreak hit the Upper Midwest. The most famous of the Tornadoes was the F5 that hit the small town of Barnaveld WI. However there were Tornadoes in other Upper Midwest States. And on a personal note my small hometown in Minnesota was affected. We were not directly hit by a Tornado but the city of Albert Lea about 14 miles away was hit by an F3 Tornado on June 7. The Tornado hit and severely damaged the Ambulance Service for Albert Lea. As a result our small home town Ambulance Service went down to Albert Lea and took over.(WE had the only other Ambulane Service in Freeborn County MN at the time). Tornado outbreak of June 7–8, 1984 - Wikipedia
 
This is one of the top events I would love to be able to go back and watch evolve on present-day NEXRAD (along with the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 1965 Palm Sunday outbreak and the 1925 Tri-State tornado). It's very unusual for (a) supercell thunderstorm(s) that fire and begin producing a high-end tornado family in Iowa to continue doing the same in Wisconsin, especially late into the night. Storms are nearly always congealing into an MCS or dissipating due to increasing inhibition/boundary layer decoupling as they cross the Mississippi River after nightfall.

This year on 3/31 was one of the few outbreaks I recall in my lifetime to heavily impact the entire region of eastern Iowa, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, although it evolved a lot differently with the discrete tornadic supercells primarily in Iowa/a couple in IL and multiple rounds of tornadic QLCS activity affecting the entire area, and no tornado in Wisconsin was rated higher than EF1.
 
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