WMOD00043

• Contract/Permit #: Denied
• Applicant: Western Kansas Groundwater
• Project Name: Kansas Weather Modification
• Title: Denied
• Date: 1/1/1996
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Proof of Public Notice

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Rain stimulation near Tribune was started at 2: 17 p.m, and
continued until 2;22 p.m, at which time the plane was diverted to
a new storm about 9 miles west of radar, seeding it from 2:48 p,m.
to 3:09 p.m., then moved on toward southern Stanton County. At the
same time a new hail-producing storm south of Garden City was being
seeded by two of the cloud base planes. The final two cloud base
planes were airborne at 2:28 and 2:45 p.m., respectively, one going
to the Garden City storm, the other to patrol and work around the
storm near Tribune, seeded earlier; seeding began again' on the
Tribune storm at 2:52 p.m. and went to 3:26 p.m. when rough running
engines necessitated landing at Scott City for a checkout. The
cloud top plane seeded east-to-west over southern Gray County,
losing a vacuum pump at 3:44 p.m. Cloud top seed.ing continued. over
Scott County until 4:35 p.m. then it returned to Dodge City; it was
restored to service later, just after operations ended.

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Garden City airport and southeast into Gray County, southern
Hamilton, eastern Finney and south of Holcomb, By .5:13 p.m. the
seeding tracks were east-to-west across central Hamilton County and'
in NE Finney!SW Lane counties. At 5:22 p.m. two planes went to
southwest Ford County where a new target was found and begun to be
seeded at 5:45 p.m. Also, at 5:22 p.m. one plane had to land for
resupply. In Ford County one plane could seed only until 6;17 p.m.
and then had to land for fuel. Seeding for hail was also going on
in extreme southeast Wallace County and northeast Greeley by 5:58
p.m.

One cloud base plane was airborne again at 6 p.m., another at,
6:18 p.m., both worked with a third seeding across northern Greeley
and Wichita counties at 6:30 p.m. A fourth cloud base plane
continued working across central Ford County. Another plane had to
land for fuel and supplies at 6:40 p.m. More seeding continued in
southwestern Wallace county and, separately, in extreme southeast
Ford County. Another plane, airborne at 7:06 p.m., went to a storm
near Scott City, and seeded there for rain augmentation at 8:06
p.m.; yet another plane got up at 7:24 p.m. and went to Kendall
where rain augmentation started at 7:52 p.m. Also at 7:52 p.m.
another aircraft flight was' terminated for ,fuel and supplies.
Another cloud base plane was airborne from Dodge City at 8:06 p.m.
More seeding was performed around Lakin and in northeast Hamilton
County at 8:17 p.m, continuing until 8:28 p.m. at which time two
seeding planes began concentrating around the cluster of storms
which had grown much larger and was centered north of Kendall. At
8:51 p.m. one plane ended seeding the Kendall cluster of storms and
went to extreme southwest Stanton County; another returned to its
base for supplies.

Two planes were seeding On the Kendall cluster of storms by
9:42 p.m. and two more went there after both were airborne at 9:33
p.m. Also, seeding for rain stimulation was again begun by one
plane in western Ford County at 8:56 p.m., working southeast down
a line of cells. That same plane worked into northern Clark County
to a NE-SW line of severe storms and began to be seeded at 9:18 p.m.