• 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.

The most intense, interesting stormy weather from in plane

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StephenLevine

What is the most intense, interesting weather that you have ever experienced inside a plane trip? What did it look like and how was your reaction?
My most interesting and intense experience occurred in 1980, during a flight between Pittsburgh PA and Dayton OH.
Even before the flight, I watched nervously as they had planes taking off near obvious rain feet and just ahead of rain squalls.
On my flight, somewhere over Ohio, we began to enter waves of intense thunderstorms. Looking out my window, I could see the ragged bottoms of squall line shelf cloud way below me. We flew alongside of this wedge till its charcoal mountain was along side of us, and we disappeared into the overcast. This happened at least two times.
The turbulance on this flight was so severe that I had the image of the plane being a leaf blowing in the wind. Of course all the flight attendents were strapped down.
We kept changing heights, sometimes entering storms low and ending up way up in the clouds where charcoal gave way to whitish gray over our heads. Sometimes we exited high and sometimes low.
At one point everything outside my window turned pea green. Surprisingly there was no lightning or visible hail.
Meantime, after I landed, I found out that below all this was a rare earthquake.
 
Sometime in the mid-1980s, I was headed from Kansas City to Dallas/Fort Worth on an American 727-200 (ahhh, the glory days of the trijet! But I digress.....). There were heavy thunderstorms just to the south of MCI and upon departure, the flight crew did some serious slalom work weaving around the towers going up. The lightning show was impressive to say the least but the ride was VERY rough until we cleared the line.

Three years ago I was flying on a Southwest 737-700 from Dallas Love Field to El Paso and we skirted an impressive storm just west of Fort Worth. As we passed the storm's SW flank, I sure was straining the old Mark One eyeballs to see if there was anything dropping out from what look like a meso.
 
In 2000 (I think that's right), I took a non-stop from Miami to Albuquerque. Over Texas, we flew pretty close to a very impressive overshooting top that made me wonder if that storm was tornadic. Hours later, when I turned on TWC, I learned of the Ft Worth tornado.

August 30 last year I flew St Louis to Baltimore, and it was pretty spooky/sad flying through Katrina's "remnants" (may have still been a TS at the time).

Bob
 
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