• 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.

Weather Data from Tornado Strike

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Well I finally got around to decoding the data from some anemomenter sites i set up around the area. One of the sites, M102, located 2 miles southwest of Parker, had a NEAR direct tornado strike on it on 07/31/2004. I loaded data from the 30th, 31st, and 1st into excel and came up with the following data:

  • 13* Heat Index drop and recovery at time of incident.
    6.6* Wet Bulb drop and recovery at time of incident.
    7.1* Dew Point drop and recovery at time of incident.
    3.9% Relative humididty increase at incident, 12.9% drop after incident.
    Barometric Pressure: 03.98 inHg pressure drop at time of incident. (!!!)


    • I have a plethora of data from 07/26/2004 at 0900 to 08/05/2004 at 1600, indluding Temp, Wind Chill, Relative Humidity, Heat Index, Dew Point, Wet Bulb, Baromentric Pressure, and Density Altitude, but no type of model program to plug it into.

      Whattya think?
      Woodster
 
Originally posted by Kyle Masters
That's what i want to do, but does anyone know of any programs?
I may not be understanding what you want to do with it, but wouldn't excel be able to create a line chart/graph of this data, i.e an atmospheric parameter value vs. time graph?
 
Here's the excel graph that I got from putting the data in there. Simple, but effective. Click the image toview the larger version (800x600)

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This data includes two automatic spot measurements at 17:40:53 and 17:42:24, which is why the dip appears to last so long. removing the spot measurements causes more sharp dips and peaks in the lines.

NOTE: WC (Wind Chil) ant T (Temp) lines are the same. I accidentally exported Wind Chill instead of Wind Speed/Direction. Next time I get out to the unit I'll export WS.
 
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