• 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.

Time machine: 1982 Pampa storm in high-definition satellite

Tim Vasquez

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The May 19, 1982 Pampa supercell through the magic of computer processing and rescue of raw GOES archival tapes:

http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/pampa

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The full story is here, and some photos and video clips are on Panoramio, YouTube, and elsewhere.

More "golden oldies" to come soon. I received a batch of this data and am working to sort it out and get it in a usable format like above.

Tim
 
Wow...what a great idea to post this! I love looking at data from old school events. Some events like April 10, 1979 and April 4, 1974 are well documented, whilemany others have little if any data on them. This Pampa event is a classic gem. I believe the first time I saw your video of this tornado was either on a Tornado Video Classics tape or Tornadoes the Entity (the video with the horror-like music).

Thanks for doing this!
 
I believe the first time I saw your video of this tornado was either on a Tornado Video Classics tape or Tornadoes the Entity (the video with the horror-like music).
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Credit for that would have to go to my alter ego Tim Marshall. I don't know if his description still holds with all the storms that he's seen lately, but Tim used to speak with awe about the anvil structure of the Pampa storm. So it's great to be able to see the fine detail on that anvil. It bears a pretty close resemblance to what the 5/3/99 Oklahoma storms put out (not the 2045Z initiation shot above, but the later shots in the link).

Tim
 
One thing that particularly strikes me is that I notice a cyclonic whorl in the last shot (23:45) covering the entire convective system.
Very amazing.
Thank you for these awesome sequences.
 
Thanks for the great data post Tim! I love pouring over past data: UPA, SAT, and SFC. It's almost a exciting to me as viewing old photos and video.

I and others would love more...

Simon
 
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