• 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.

Mesocyclone Occlusions as Viewed from the Ground

gdlewen

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I have a general question about mesocyclone occlusions as viewed from the ground.

This is related to my post in Target Area (2021-4-27 REPORTS: CO/TX). As a rule I do not try to sit in the inflow area of a supercell, mostly because I promised my wife that I would generally avoid placing us in this kind of position to be safe. (She's a reluctant participant who drives when we are close to a cell, but otherwise plays some variant of Candy Crush or June's Journey on her phone.) In this case I felt there was minimal risk, given the clear escape route south and the relatively slow speed of the storm.

As a result, I rarely get to see the perspective I saw on 4/27/2021. I am not worried about the assessment of the state of occlusion of the mesocyclone by about 4:44PM CDT, as viewed by radar. That seems pretty clear. However, I am curious about how the occlusion process looks from the ground. If anyone has any comments about that I would appreciate them. In this case, it looked like a general lowering and encroachment of rain from the left-to-right as the video progressed, ending in a complete obscuration of the mesocyclone as viewed from my location. I am imagining this is a manifestation of the descending reflectivity core (RDC), but short of getting an expert opinion, I have to keep reading papers and reading others' chase reports (which I will do anyways I guess....)

Thanks for any comments--and if you have them, please post examples from your chases. Chasing without feedback is like wiring an open-loop amplifier--I greatly appreciate the "feedback".
 
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