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County continuing seeding until the line left the county. Some new "packside" growth built west of the line and seeding lingered until all storms dissipated. Seeding ended and planes began being sent back to their bases at 11:53 a.m, All planes were scrambled in mid-afternoon beginning at 3:32 p,m. when storms were seen building rapidly in Grant, Kearny and Stevens counties. Seeding at cloud base to suppress hail began in southwestern Stevens at 4:03 p.m. with three other base seeders also starting at 4~06, 4:15 and 4:23 p,m., respectively. ~The last cloud base plane began in southern Grant County at 4:32'P.m. By .,: 28 p. m. seeding emphasis was -s-hifL':"u9 to' sv....Lhwestern ':::itanton,~ The cloud top plane, airborne at 4:22' p,m., began seeding over southern Grant county and worked into parts of Stevens and Stanton along an ,E-W track. Subsequently, storms built into southeast i-:miLaton and Haskell counties. The Hamilton' storm became' very intense and bolted northward into Greeley and Wallace counties, whereas, most other storms moved northeasterly into Kearny, Scott, Lane, Grant, Haskell, Gray and Finney counties. The cloud top plane had to return far fuel at 6:55 p.1l\, and cloud base aircraft began running out of seeding agent at, 6: 57 p,m., one after the other, hampering seeding effectiveness. Radar showed a bow-echo oriented N-S across Gray County at 7:23 p.m.---generally a sign that strong winds and wind-driven hail may follow, Apparently, such was not the case. Seeding continued to the east into Gray County and Ford County until 8:11 p.m. before ending. JUNE 25th - OPERATIONAL DAY #32: A warm frontal boundary may have been in the area early this morning. At 2: 15 a.m. a WNW";ESE oriented line of storms built south-southwest from the northwest oe Lamar across Coolidge and Syracuse. Three ,cloud base planes were scrambled; however, the cloud top and one cloud base plane could not b_e. sent aloft since they were not operational at the time. Seeding for hail suppression began along the line of storms 5 miles southeast of Coolidge at 2:50 a.m. and two others joined at 2:55 and 3 p.m., respectively. The storms soon weakened and all seeding stopped at 3:15 a,m. Thereafter, the line continued to fill in and drop southward into Stanton Coy,nty as. well as'gxtend'furthar Silst into Grant and Haskell counties. Seeding continued along the line until 3: 30 a.m. then diverted into southeast Hamilton and southwest Kearny counties performing seeding from 3:46 to 6:12 a.m, Seeding ,was' also done in Stanton County until 6:40 a.m. By 6:12 a.m. a new line of storms had built from northeast Grant to southwest Haskell and into central Seward County. It was seeded from 6:16 to 6:32 a.m, All seeding ended at 6:40 a.m. At 5:45 p.m. all cloud base planes were scrambled when three areas of cloud development began to develop strongly: one in northeastern Lane, another just south of Haskell and one south of Ford County. The cloud top plane was scrambled at 6:12 p.m. Seeding began for hail suppression just east of Stevens County, south of Satanta, at 6:23 p.m. The storm was propagating to the west into central Stevens County. Two other cloud base planes were on the storm at 6:32p.m. and a fourth at 6,57 p.m. Four planes continued