• 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.

Waterspout - Australia

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Mt Warrigal, NSW, Australia
The 11th February saw a waterspout about 3 miles from my home. I had been out looking for waterspouts as I sensed that conditions were favourable. I spotted this one about 15 mins earlier than the video whilst it was still a long way offshore. Unfortunately I was held up at at a train crossing and therefore could not make it to a vantage point in time.

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The video is here, sorry it is not really that exciting

http://ozthunder.com/video/waters.wmv

Australian severe weather have some pictures that do the waterspout justice.

http://www.australiasevereweather.com.au/tornado.htm

The previous evening I was out taking some lightning shots...............



....................when just a little further up the line I spotted ......



It perisited for about 3 perhaps 4 mins, just before it dissappeared it looked like....



The jury is out, I am certainly not making any call on this one, with an almost pure saturated atmosphere, any sort of vortice condenses, but the persistance and isolation has me thinking. The conditions at the time was an obvious thunderstorm given the lightning. Definately NOT a supercell. The storm was actually a rare setup, being part of a 150 mile long convergance line of storms, but a thin one. Storms trained down the line constantly from about 6pm to 4am. The convergance line was parallel the coast, but about 10 miles inland. I received only 1 inch of rain, whilst in the same period the hills just behing the line in the pictures goy betwen 4-6 ins.

Does anybody wish to offer an educated opinion ?
 
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