• 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.

New Largest Hailstone Record for State of Colorado

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4.83 inches, beating the previous record of 4.5 inches.

It fell northwest of Bethune on Tuesday.


UPDATE: NWS and state of Colorado announcements about it:

(Apologies: the forum software automatically converted SOME, but not ALL, of the links to embedded posts. I can't embed all of them in one post, so make sure to check all links)

Gotta love the comment in the re-tweeted tweet about "given how the radar looked...". Clearly a failure of understanding of Mie scattering theory.

Here's another phat stone that appears never to have been considered:
https://twitter.com/NWSGoodland/status/1161426976403382278

And another interesting side to this story:
https://twitter.com/ColoradoClimate/status/1161815830461444096
 
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Wow. quite a hailstone :eek: I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere near the storm that was throwing out those!
Surprised I didn't see this in the local paper (I see the link goes to their website)
 
Amazing! The photo made it look like it was 5 1/2" which would have shattered the record. I remember in 2009 in Oregon Missouri seeing some very large hail (Recorded 5 1/2") but I never stopped to pick any up ... regret it to this day.
 
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