I have drafted an article (likely falls into the category of "technical note") regarding my observations of funnels and tornadoes here in the northern Virginia area that otherwise go unwarned and undetected. The premise is that interaction of convective cells with local terrain and weather conditions provide the impetus for low level rotation that is undetected by the NWS Sterling radar (~50 miles distant). Now that I've finished the first draft I am undecided as to what to do with it. The effort involved in gathering and analyzing data and writing the paper was considerable, but nowhere near the effort that will likely be involved in presenting and defending it during the peer review process. I haven't yet convinced myself that getting the article published (in either a print or online journal) is worth the aggravation of answering nit-picky questions from others. Thus it's probably a good thing I never decided to enter the world of academia...