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<br />boundary and four cloud base planes were scrambled' for possible <br />seeding in the Hitch Ranch part of the Oklahoma Panhandle. However, <br />soon after, one flight was canceled and put on standby; later to be <br />scrambled. A second plane was diverted to Lakin, leaving two planes <br />to fly into the Panhandle. More general cloud growth near the south <br />portion of the target area required the cloud top plane to go on <br />standby; also, the Scott City plane flew to Dodge City to stand by, <br />A third base seeder was scrambled to the Hitch Ranch at 4:34 p.m. <br /> <br />Seeding for rain stimulation began in the southern part of the <br />HitCh Ranch at 5:01 p.m. by two planes working until 5:11 p.m. New <br />clouds grew northward and the planes seeded them from 5:28 p.m. to <br />5: 33p, m. Subsequently, new cloud growth was closer to stevens <br />County. The third plane scrambled to the Hitch Ranch was diverted <br />to the ::::tevens,storm and began seeding it at 5:50 p.m. A second <br />plane was moved up from the Hitch Ranch to assist while the third <br />plane patrolled the area. Seeding around southern Stevens County <br />continued until 5:58 p.m. with all the planes patrolling afterward, <br />At 6:06 p.m. all flights were terminated, All pilots on standby <br />were released at 6:45 p.m. <br /> <br />JUNE 30th - OPERATIONAL DAY #36 : The cold front which lay in the <br />Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles the afternoon of the day before, <br />moved slightly northward into southwest Kansas. An isolated storm <br />began building shortly before midnight along the frontal boundary <br />in Gray County having new development to its southwest across <br />southern Haskell, southern Grant and northern Stevens counties. <br />Four cloud base planes were scrambled. Fortuitously, the fifth <br />plane, which had been on standby earlier in the afternoon at Dodge <br />City, was returning late in the evening after aircraft maintenance <br />was done and was able to begin seeding first for hail in central <br />Gray County at 12:05 a.m. Subsequent seeding was southwest down <br />the line near Sublette and Satanta: another plane joined at 1t05 <br />and a third at 1:07 a.m. The cloud top plane and a cloud base <br />plane were scrambled at 1:25 and 1:46 a.m., respectively. The cloud <br />scrambled base plane did not seed, whereas, the cloud top plane did <br />,seed intl;!rxnittentlybetween2: 15 .to2:~6 <'I(m_cloud bas,e g,c:leding <br />continued in southern Grant, southern Haskell arid northern 'Stevens <br />on storms which had formed over the frontal boundary. Seeding <br />continued throug~ 2:40 - 2:46 a.m. before terminating. <br /> <br />By early afternoon severe storms again fired up along the <br />frontal boundary both on the south side of Stevens County and, <br />separately, south of syracuse. Three cloud base planes and the <br />cloud top plane were scrambled at 1:10 p.m.; the last two base <br />seeders were scrambled at 1:22 p.m. <br /> <br />Seeding for hail began at cloud base in southern Stevens <br />County at 1:45 p.m. Storm movements were weak, initially, moving <br />to the northeast very slowly, if at all. Two more planes were also <br />seeding the same storm at 1:50 and 1:58 p.m., respectively, and the <br />cloud top plane began seeding it around 2:10 p.m. Other new storms <br />built preferentially along the east side of Stevens County and <br />further east across Seward, Meade and Clark counties and some to <br />