• 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.

TS 06L ( Tropical Storm Fay)

Good Morning,

Well fellas it looks like I will be easy chair chasing this one. Currently it appears to be tracking right over top of the MS Gulf Coast. I found a great website called Tropical Atlantic.com that has tropical message decoders and a KML overlays for Google Earth of the objective aids.
 
Here's some rainfall data and windspeed data attached in the file from the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, FL taken from a "FIT supported rain gauge/weather station on top of Roberts Hall -- a
tipping bucket gauge"--information I received and was given permission to post from Dr. Steven Lazarus and explained here by Dr. Michael E. Splitt
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a) The top plot is the 1 min ave wind speed/gust (mph).
Note the clear passage of the storm center.

b) The middle plot is the rainfall rate (5 min ave in mm/h) and radar reflectivity dBZ.

c) The bottom is the accumulated rainfall from Robsets Hall, and that derived
from the radar using a tropical Z-R [relationship of Z=250R1.2]. Note that
this Z-R relationship appears to underestimate the rainfall; though this is a first
cut a the calculation (using level III based reflectivity interpolated to the location
of Roberts Hall) it is interesting.
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Did anyone mention that Cocoa Beach got 33 inches from Fay?
Some of my students mentioned they encountered waist and even chest-high water with some of the roads at the FIT campus. In the building I work, I wasn't there, but apparently water was pouring from the elevator on the 6th floor Wed. & Thurs. When I was back on Friday multiple rooms had fans at work to dry the wet carpets. Keep in mind FL was in a drought before this storm--no longer. Wonder what the flooding would (will?) look like if/when another (or few?) tropical systems come through on top of this. I live about a mile from Windover Farms that had some very high rainfall as well. Today the water level seems to have gone back down in the wetland/pond behind my apt.
 

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