• 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.

Vortex 2 Radar Data

I'm getting some weird code from this. What format are these files?

I think they are animated GIFs. Note that some are also ~50+ MB, so your best bet may be to download / "save as", then open in something like Internet Explorer. The lack of a file extension confuses Firefox... If you can do that, you'll see DOW5/RapidDOW almost get hit by that tornado, which passes within ~200 m (from my eyeballed estimate) of the radar.
 
I can see only one image, opening it with quick time, but no animation...

Anyone could upload an mpeg or mov file with animation? This thing is too fine, guys, please, do it.;)
 
I didnt have a problem opening it just took a longtime to download..once it fully D.L you should see the animation..awesome images.
 
Yeah the server is extremely slow putting out data at 'dial up' speed so one has to be very patient..nevertheless the images are excellent.
 
Yeah I saw that they almost got hit from one of Joshs radar recalls. I guess the rapid dow. Who was leading that by the way. Was it Karen? Thankfully it was a barely on the ground with windspeeds below 45 m/s2 so therefor did really no damage to the rapid dow. I saw the image too what a close call! LOL!

By the way thank you Tim Marshall for putting this up!
 
Thank you both for posting this! I am currently working on a research project on June 9th, 09 storms. The data from that day really helps with it!
 
Thank you both for posting this! I am currently working on a research project on June 9th, 09 storms. The data from that day really helps with it!

You might try giving one of the steering committe members a ring or an email - I'd guess they'd be quite happy to share even more data with you for your research, if it's a scientific research project.
 
You might try giving one of the steering committe members a ring or an email - I'd guess they'd be quite happy to share even more data with you for your research, if it's a scientific research project.

Well, its nothing really formal. Just a study I am doing for a Synoptic 2 course. I am thinking about expanding it for my senior seminar next semester, however.
 
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