• 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.

Shear Markers

No, live radars don't do shear markers. He was talking about the WSI / VIPIR stuff that shows multiple shear scits for the same storm because they don't filter out, and/or they show tilt 2-4 shears.
 
rdale said:
No, live radars don't do shear markers. He was talking about the WSI / VIPIR stuff that shows multiple shear scits for the same storm because they don't filter out, and/or they show tilt 2-4 shears.
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That's news to me because I've seen local OKC stations have shear markers overlaid on their station's radar (and 88D stuff). So does that mean they are putting 88D detections on their radar images? :confused: I think I just confused myself beyond hope. :o
 
Yes - all the software allows for that... Lives can't because they don't do volume scans, so there's no way to interrogate a storm for rotation. All you could get was one level GtG and that certainly isn't a proxy for tornado.
 
So we don't really know what a shear marker's position indicates when zoomed in, as in center of rotation, point of max shear or boundary of sheared area? I didn't see this addressed at the GRL forum--if no one here knows, I'll post the question over there.
 
Dave - all depends on what you're talking about as all software is different... This post was in relation to the TV packages used from WSI / Baron / etc. GR's forum would have more info if you're referring to GRLevelX stuff.
 
I have noticed, when using MTN, that tornadoes only tend to occur when the "shear marker" gives a velocity (I'm assuming a GTG shear) of over 100mph, and often above 120mph. I have always believed the multiple markers situation arises from MTN showing markers from all radar sites, as it says in the handbook. From page 26:

"As a result of processing the data from all of the radars across the
country, multiple SCITs may be displayed in and around one storm.
This is because each radar with different operational conditions can
provide new and valuable information on the parameters of a particular​
storm cell."
 
Paul Knightley said:
I have noticed, when using MTN, that tornadoes only tend to occur when the "shear marker" gives a velocity (I'm assuming a GTG shear) of over 100mph, and often above 120mph. I have always believed the multiple markers situation arises from MTN showing markers from all radar sites, as it says in the handbook. From page 26:

"As a result of processing the data from all of the radars across the
country, multiple SCITs may be displayed in and around one storm.
This is because each radar with different operational conditions can
provide new and valuable information on the parameters of a particular​
storm cell."
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Paul this is the same thing I wrote before but probably I didn't express clearly: I've noticed too that when you see more than 100mph you have a good probability to see a tornado; I'm not referring to the value that you see when you click the shear marker, but I'm telling about the velocity.
 
Mike G. and Greg Stumpf replied to my question at the GRLX forum. Meso markers are placed "on the centroid of the shear region."

"The NMD centroids are defined as the halfway point of a line connecting the maximum inbound and the maximum outbound at the lowest elevation angle of detection."

Thanks to you both.
 
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