• 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.

SmartForecast Product

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RMacDonald

All, trying to improve my software product, I have a newer output and would love to get critiques on it if possible. Thanks so much for the help. Trying to make a better product.

Product can be viewed here: http://smartwxmodel.net/KCRW.pdf
 
I like the product. The thing i would like to see though especially next to the indicies is the previous skew t analysis. That way i could see a trend. Also i would like to see BRN added as well.
 
Seems a little over dramatic to color the values based on the level of threat implied. For example, low LCLs alone do not imply any sort of dangerous weather. Something else, like a thunderstorm, blizzard, or tornado, must be occurring with low LCLs in order for the LCL height to really mean anything. Also I think you need to define some of your indices somewhere. I question your computation of the "tornado index" values. Did you happen to be running the SmartModel anywhere near Joplin, El Reno, Hacklesburg, Smithville or other places where violent tornadoes struck? If so, what kind of values did your equations come up with? I like your attempts to judge the threat level for certain travel, sports, or infrastructure activities, but many of the boxes were empty. Why?
 
The color values are based of favorable thresholds for convective weather. Green representing marginal, yellow=moderate, red=strong, and purple=extreme. The Hourly Convective Indice is for thunderstorms, hail and tornadoes. The Tornado Index is just something I am working with, it takes all the values that are considered optimal for favorable environmental conditions for rotation. For Joplin area it was ready 94%, have a few other cities but still trying to fine tune this. As far as the other boxes, I had those calculations turned off. need to see if I can add any more outdoor activities that are effected by weather. I am working on an in-depth .pdf file to explain how the data is ingest and recalculated and applied to the product. Hoping to compile to an .exe so people can download and use whenever the want too.
 
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