• 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 Station/Probe Question

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Hey guys,

I've been looking around for different weather stations. I was hoping that somebody could give me an insight on what kind of sensors are usually put into tornado probes or similar units. The thing is, most of the weather stations (that are within a reasonable price range) have sampling rate of about 10 seconds. The one I like is the Davis Vantage Pro 2 that samples every 2.5 secs. I guess my question is this. When a tornado passes over the probe, don't you need a nearly continuous sampling rate to record a correct data since tornadoes move at a good speed.
Is more expensive equipment the anwer here ?

Any suggestions, thoughts ?

Thank you.
 
Davis not good enough.

I wouldn't try to use a Davis for a probe....they or anything in that price range will NOT be strong enough as a probe.

Start with RM Young....and work up from there. That also solves your sampling rate issue.
 
One of the DIllo-Cams that I made used a Davis anemometer, but that was the only Davis component. I made my own data logger that sampled 6 times every second. I didn't expect the cups to survive the strongest winds though.
Tim Samaris measures the wind with several pressure ports around his probes.
 
RM Young is the way to go for wind.. but its high $..

But if your are going take the time and trouble of putting a probe in i would have good equipment.
 
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