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<br />tornadic clouds and clouds producing funnel clouds are usually the <br />sQme ones most likely to produce widespread large hail capable of <br />causing extensive property and auto damage. One of the first <br />presenters at the Bismarck conference made mention of this very <br />fact in discussing the 1988 hail damage of a tornadic storm in <br />Edmonton, Alberta which caused over C$lBO million in insurance <br />losses. In our 21 prior years of seeding all the severe storms we <br />could reach, some have been tornadic or shown funnels. Therefore, <br />our da~a is obviously unique among u.S. ' hail suppression programs. <br /> <br />Oddly enough, the largest drawback to suce~Hl!;',fully analyzing <br />propetti~hail damage data is the insurancecompani~s themselves. <br />Since there- is no central data bank fromwhlchto obtain the needed <br />information; getting jealollsly-g-uarded prop':",' .:.; ,,~(-u"Clge data from <br />insur8rt~e comDanies will be difficult despite the fact it will be <br />in their 'best ir,terest to allow it-It took the Canadians a years <br />to get themselves organized; who knows, perhaps U.S. insurers can <br />do as .....ell. <br /> <br />OPERA1IONS: No seeding was done this week. However, we will note <br />that after- this weekly reporting period ended, some seeding was <br />performed on very severe thunderstorms which began generating in <br />Ford County late Saturday/early Sunday morning, April 27th/28th. <br />More detail about this will be discussed in next week's newsletter. <br /> <br />~dt;-/ JJ~~ <br /> <br />Curtis D. Smith <br />program Manager, <br />Western Kansas Weather Modification <br />