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6 increments obtained through successive subtraction. The incremental values were adjusted slightly for durational consistency, as were the 6-hour accumulated values, and both are presented in Table 4. The final step was to create a suggested PMS hourly chronology as shown in Table 5. The hourly amounts are based on hourly percentage contributions to the 72-hour accumulated amount obtained from the sample chronology prepared in PRHMR52. other chronologies consistent with the accumulations and increments of Table 4 are also permissible and might be hydrologically more significant. 3. Comments Comparisons were made between some of the results of this study and other storm observations or study results. The comparisons are contained in Table 6. In Table 6, the references to Corps of Engineers (COE) and the Bureau of Reclamation (BUR) mean, respectively: Part II. Report on storm of May 30-31, 1935 (MR3-28A), Corps of Engineers, u.s. Army, Missouri River Division, Kansas city District, 7 July 1945 and storm study MR3-28A) (Zone A) May 30-31, 1935, storm Rainfall Centers Northeast of Colorado Springs, Colorado (Cherry Creek storm), Flood Section, u.s. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, May 1985. Other comparisons (NOAA Atlas 2) are with NOAA Atlas 2, "Precipitation Frequency Atlas of the Western United states, Volume III, Colorado, National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, u.s. Department of Commerce, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1973. For durations of 1- and 6-hours, the maximum point values from this study are exceeded by the unmaximized ("observed") point values from the May 30-31, 1935, storm in eastern Colorado as well as by the among-storm, 10-mi2 values from Plates Ib and lIb of HMR 55A. At 24 hours, the study's maximum point value exceeds the unmaximized storm values, but it continues to be exceeded by the 10-mi2 values out of HMR 55A. Such results are acceptable and consistent with the hypothesis that if a PMS is to occur at a storm area size near or at 386-mi2, it will produce less than among-storm values of PMP at storm area sizes above and below 386-mi2, with the percentage departure increasing, the greater the difference between the given area size and 386-mi2. Since at 386-mi2, the PMS of this study exceeds the unmaximized 1935 Storm by about a factor of 2, it is reasonable to believe that the 1935 storm maximized near 10-mi2 or less. The maximum point values at 6-, and 24-hours from this study exceed the largest 100-year return period precipitation in the Cherry Creek Drainage by roughly seven times. The reduction of the basin (386-mi2) average depths of within-storm PMP from the corresponding among-storm values out of