• 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.

Palo Iowa tornado 5/21/04!

  • Thread starter Thread starter Craig Maire II
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RE: Palo Iowa tornado, 5/21/04

Thanks for sharing that... I assume you're from Eastern IA, since you watch KCRG? I work in Cedar Rapids (10 mi from Palo) and left work to go on an impromptu backyard chase that afternoon. Ironically that was my first day back to work after a two-week chasing vacation.

It was an interesting setup that day - the thing I remember most was a very strong outflow boundary from morning convection in northeastern Iowa, that pushed southwest, aligning itself along a Mason City, IA; to Iowa City line by mid-afternoon. Strongly backed low-level flow was no doubt largely responsible for this storm

My chase log:

Times are approximate:
3:45 (CDT): Benton County in eastern IA is tornado warned. I make a decision to chase, heading S on I-380, and then W on US-
30. I went N 1/2 mi on Sisley Grove Rd, in western Linn Co. A
high-precipitation supercell was to the west and north, with
well-defined forward- and rear-flank areas, and a wall cloud (rapidly becoming obscured by precipitation). I saw a brief funnel pendent from this area, before it became rain-wrapped. At that point, I had to head back S to US-30, and then E to Highway 13, which runs N-S east of Cedar Rapids and Marion. From there, E on Mt. Vernon Rd, and stopping at good viewing area. Meso is very obscured by rain, but a lowering is visible in this area. Spotter repots were coming in for damage NW of Cedar
Rapids. That's about it, I continued E on Mt. Vernon until it "T'ed", and went 1 mi to the north until the RFD/rain caught up. I then went back S and then back to CR, where the thing was becomming outflow-dominant.

- bill
 
Palo Iowa tornado-5/21/04

Thanks Bill for responding to my post! Yep I live in the area (Cedarfalls Iowa) and saw atleast 9 tornados (including the Palo tornado) on 5/21/04! Feel free to visit my website: http://www.supercellstalker.com
to see some pics from that day.
 
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