• 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.

Peculiar GFS/WRF QPFs

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The 12Z GFS and WRF runs show some peculiar QPF images over the southern great plains for the next few days. They look like mesoscale/synoptic scale supercells! Notice how each image is from a different model and at a different forecast hour, yet in a similar location.

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these features are almost certainly convective feedback. its quite common with the GFS due to the convective parameterization and geostrophic adjustments. These "QPF Bombs" are discussed here.
 
I just got around to reading that article on QPF bombs and now understand what I found.

I have to laugh, though. When I first saw these images, I thought they were just cutesy little peculiar QPF fields and that my mind was doing a Rorschach test and seeing the supercells. It turns out, the models really are putting some sort of supercellular bomb on that image! Amazing :eek:
 
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