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Colorado and with a fundamentally-flawed, anachronistic Colorado State Weather MOdification Act. OPERATIONS: There were four days of operations occurring in the last part of this weekly period, mostly for hail suppression, "Monsoonal" moisture moved into the region from the southwestern part of the USA along with combinations of troughing aloft, surface heating and surface troughing providing excellent foundations favorable for the development of widespread thunderstorms and rainshowers. Considerable amounts of rain fell throughout Western and Southwestern Kansas this past week. JUNE 11th -OPERf-TIONAL DAY #20: In mid-afternoon vigorously building thunderstorms' could be seen forming east of FOrd County in Pawnee, Kiowa, Stafford, Edwards and Pratt counties. Two planes were sent to Dodge City to standby for the possibility of' severe storms to propagate westward into Ford County. The cloud' top plane, also located in, Dodgtl ci1:.y, was put on standby. As the afternoon rolled on, the storms east of Ford., County did not propagate back into the target ~iea. Both cloud base planes later were moved back to the west in anticipation of an extensive, easterly-moving north- south line of severe storms approaching the western part, of our target area from Colorado. By 7:40 p.m. the severe storms east of Ford County finally began propagating more strongly westward toward Ford County requiring the scrambling of two cloud base planes and the cloud top plane. At 8:25 p.m. . seeding began along the east edge of Ford County, east of Spearville. Both the cloud top plane and the two cloud base planes began seeding almost simultaneously. These three planes continued working the system as the new growth storm built westward into Ford County then moving in a southerly direction. The storm eventually passed over Bucklin producing one-inch hail for about a half hour. Seeding ended at 9:42 p.m, as the large storm passed out of Ford County into Clark County. Earlier, at 8 p.m., the other three planes were scrambled to meet an advancing line of relatively low intensity thunderstorms which were moving eastward into Kansas and more moist atmospheric conditions. Seeding began along the western edge of Stanton County at 8:14 p.m. working north-south across the county with a second plane also corning to assist. A third aircraft checked out some stormS in Hamilton and Greeley counties before being sent to help in Ford County; however, by the time that plane arrived in Ford County, the storm of consequence had moved to the edge of the target area such that no seeding was needed. The storms corning in from Colorado weakened with the more intense areas Showing' up south of Stanton County, Two planes continued seeding further south along the north-south line as it advanced eastward toward Stevens County. As seeding continued over Stevens County, the storms weakened there while intensifying further south along the same line in the Oklahoma Panhandle. By 9:30 p,m. there was no threat to the target area from severe storms, so the two seeding aircraft were sent further ,south to seed north-south for hail suppression over the