• 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.

SPC upgrades/downgrades

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I thought it would be interesting to look at where SPC upgraded and downgraded their risk areas for May 2005. Nothing scientific, just an interesting experiment.

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Could be. I remember back in the early/mid 90s the models tended to move the dry sector too far east, so a lot of Day 2's erred too far east. David Hoadley wrote a Stormtrack article on this around 1993. I think these problems are gone, though, but maybe a trace of this eastward bias still persists.

It is interesting that Colorado has been upgraded a lot, but only downgraded once.

Tim
 
Looking just at the upgrade graphic, I think I see a slight correlation with the radar hole maps that were previously discussed in another thread. The absence of nexrad coverage probably has little or no impact on the SPC deciding whether or not to upgrade an outlook, but isn't there other data gathered at those sites besides radar, the absence of which just might be significant to the SPC? Or am I just seeing things... I admit the correlation between the maps is vague at best.

I don't know what to make of the downgrade map, I can't think of any reason why those areas would be prone to downgrade.

Interesting topic, though. What were your criteria for downgrade and upgrade? Were you looking at the actual percentages or just the categories of Slight, Medium, and High? I assume the later. What about days they raised the risk and then lowered it again? I know I've seen a few of those over the years, although probably nowhere near enough to be significant to something like this. And how about the different risk factors? It might be interesting to look at up/down-grades to just the Tornado risk, or Hail or Wind... Well OK, let's not get carried away. But hey, isn't it great just to have this kind of data to play around with? :wink:
 
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