• 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.

Kansas Turnpike Authority to change weather alert system

KTA officials are on this week's Weatherbrains. Basically they said they aren't concerned about confusion with the public on the AccuWeather tornado warnings ("better safe than sorry") - their fix will be to add "AES" to the beginning of tweets if the Tornado Warning is from AccuWeather and not from the NWS.

http://weatherbrains.com/weatherbrains/?p=5655

In addition, per KTA, there was no tornado logged, but AccuWeather confirmed that a tornado did touch down.
 
They stepped it up a notch last night, issuing two "AES Tornado Warnings" for Topeka. That didn't go over well... They were called out for being irresponsible on-air by one TV station (at least) and online by two. And the NWS even had to tweet out that it was not a NWS warning.

#GivingTheBirdToTheWeatherReadyNation
 
Good thing he included a link to his book - I had no idea he was an author. Then again, since he was named THE weather expert in the entire world, what can't he do?
 
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