• 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.

Meanie greenies

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Taken south of St. Francis, KS, on 24 May 2005.

JB
 
A greenie eh? I'll tell you the weirdest one I ever saw was August 18 2005. I never really got a drop of rain but the tornado ravaged Stoughton, WI and then pressed on into Jefferson County.

Anyways I was under the anvil and there was brilliant in-cloud lightning a few times and very eerie cloud colors...including green. Then to top it all off newspaper clips and leaves and corn leaves, etc. began falling out of the sky around the area.

Suurrrreeeaaaallllll :shock:

I'm surprised Andy didn't say anything about this one...it was a couple blocks away from him.

...Alex Lamers...
 
Hey Mike H. Did you need a new pair of underware after seeing this??

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That is one of the awsomest stacked plate storms I think I have seen....excluding Grand Island's mothership.

Actually we were the one's being chased that day.

Just to clarify that this is a stitched image from a video pan but does a pretty good job of showing what it looked like. I need to dig up the actual video which may be even more impressive.
 
<img src=http://midwestchase.com/tn_16-June-2005-RAW002.jpg>

6-16-05 -- Supercell in southwest KS/OK panhandle border region... Really starting to tighten it's base up nicely. The second storm we were on after this exhibited a couple funnels... It was a decent day (MDT risk).
 
Here's a few from 24 May, 2005; three different storms. The first picture taken just north of Akron, Colorado.
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The next picture taken near Wheeler, Kansas (same storm that Jason Branz posted).
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The last pic is of a moose that was located near Towner, Colorado. 15 second exposure used hence the blur.
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This last picture shows "greens" assoc with a different type of storm. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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--Al Pietrycha
 
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