• 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.

Thunderstorms in Estonia

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I would have not posted this thread, but this time I am not staring a sounding with extreme case of SDS. Estonian weather forum has received a report from Türi, where a thunderstorm occurred this afternoon.

This report was the least I expected today. I had been keeping my eye on Wednesday for a while, but I did not expect thunderstorms to hit anywhere in Estonia already today. In fact, I looked morning's sounding and ruled out thunder threat. ESTOFEX's web site shows numerous lightning strikes in Sweden and Finland and those were missed by them as well.

As mentioned earlier, I have been keeping my eye on Wednesday. GFS is forecasting convective activity increasing tomorrow. It peaks on Wednesday at 18Z. I read out from GFS meteorogram, that tomorrow, CAPE in Laguja could be 20 J/kg and LI 4,3°C. However, this has not drawn my attention. What has drawn my attention is model forecast of 274 J/kg CAPE and -1,3°C LI on Wednesday at 18Z.

EMHI is now also forecasting thunderstorms for Wednesday
 
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