• 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.

WX wish list item: Radar alarm

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Dan Robinson

I was thinking today about how nice it would be to have some sort of automated alert that significant rain or storms were approaching, particularly when I'm asleep or engrossed in work. Specifically, a software app that could plot your location on any NWS radar image, then sound a nice, loud alarm when significant radar echoes are developing or approaching within 50-100 miles or so. All it would need to do is do a quick scan of the radar image and look for orange, red or yellow pixels showing up less than 300-400 pixels away from your location.

If I were a programmer I'd write the code myself. I wouldn't think it would be all that complicated, except maybe an algorithm to ignore ground clutter.
 
How about AlertMe Pro?



EDIT: I've been playing around with the new version of SwiftWX. Here's a screenshot you might like:

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WXWORX does this in a way.
When you have a GPS connected, it will watn you one of two ways.
If you are aproaching a "strong" storm
If you are aproaching a "twisting" storm

You can change the .wav files to say anything you want.
 
I don't see anything there about being able to alert based on radar imagery - exactly how does it work?
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You can set swift fx to alert based on whatever dbz threshold you set for radar, for whatever range you set for your lat/long location. Actually if you read the text at the very bottom of Eric's image, you will see that.


Pretty neat feature! Too bad swift-wx, GRL3 and wxworx dont get together and create the ultimate all in one progy......lol
 
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