• 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.

State of the Chase Season: 2016 Edition

If the 4KM NAM/GFS is to be believed, then Thursday could foster a favorable setup for a few tornadoes in E IA/IL. We will have to wait and see though. Overnight convection can severely alter the overall setup for any given day this time of year. So looking even 2 days out, is fairly tricky, when trying to asses severe weather potential in these areas.
 
Figured I'd dust off this thread with a half-decent trough progged to swing through the central and southern Plains out in the 192 hour fantasyland. Not really in the "chase season" anymore, but this thread is as good as any to maybe discuss a bit.
 
It's been pretty consistent for several runs of the GFS now, albeit with large swings in mesoscale details, well more than expected at this forecast range. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.
 
I'll just leave this here...

I should preface this by saying that the moisture return isn't ideal, but there still is a decent amount of CAPE along the W half of the LLJ axis with obviously strong dynamic support.

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I started an event thread in target area for those interested. Liking what Im seeing so far with consistency. We have a few mesoscale details to work out but we have a few more days for that. Happy to back here after a boring summer.
 
Well, yesterday still ended up better than I had expected from October, but that late initiation roughly 45 minutes before sunset near Apache was an absolute killer considering how well that storm matured into the night. Looking like that was our last significant trough within a reasonable range and Thursday looks like a linear crapfest up on the cold front.
 
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