• 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.

Life Lost in 2000 Fort Worth Hail Storm Supports A Life 18-Years Later

Randy Jennings

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On March 28, 2000, 19-year old Jose Carlos Oseguera was killed hail in Fort Worth, Texas. Eighteen years later, Oseguera’s kidney lives on in soon to be 62-year-old John Sudbay.

Full story at: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/...porting-A-Life-18-years-Later--478360083.html

Storm Data doesn't have an advanced search function, but media reports make it look like Oseguera was the last person killed in the US by hail. According to The Weather Channel, "reported deaths from hail in the United States are very infrequent. You have to go back more than a decade to find the last deadly hailstorm. On March 28, 2000 a pizza deliveryman was killed by baseball to softball size hail in Fort Worth, Texas. There's been a couple other reports of deaths in the U.S. in the last one hundred years, one in Fort Collins, Colo. on July 30, 1979 and another in Lubbock, Texas on May 13, 1930. Internationally, the deadliest hailstorm occurred on April 30, 1988 in India when 246 people were killed." (https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/hail-dangers-costs-20130403). AtlasObscura also has an interesting article on hail deaths: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hail-no-an-account-of-the-worlds-biggest-deadliest-hailstorms
 
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