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, ended seeding shortly before that at 12:19 a.m. JUNE 14th - OPERATIONAL DAY #43: As operations wound down from the previous day which had extended into these early morning hours, a new storm built northwest of Tribune adjacent to a larger area of weaker showers to its east and northeast. Two planes were scrambled to it and two others enroute home from operations in the southeast part of the target area also were diverted to it. The two scrambled planes seeded the storm from 1:30 a.m. to 1:47 a.m. and ended when storm intensities and updrafts became much lower and did extended patrolling ending at 2:30 a.m. The other two planes didn't seed. JULY 17th - OPERATIONAL DAY #44: New storm growth became vigorous in late a.fternoon. Air was forced upward by a combination of strong surface heating and convergence in a surface trough laying NE-SW across Logan, Wichita and Greeley Counties in Kansas and further , southw.,;,,'\..;, ird:C Kiowa County. ( CO) . The first few severe storms developing lay along the state line, some inside Kansas and some outside, Four cloud base planes were initially scrambled around 4:25 p.m., the fifth at 4:50 p.m. Seeding for hail began at 5 p.m. near Towner, CO (inside Kansas). Three others joined in seeding at 5:10,5:11 and 5:12 p.m. By 5:26 p,m. updrafts were weaker with radar intensities lower, so seeding ended and the area of storm development was patrolled. Four base seeders were sent in at 5:30 p.m. leaving one to patrol. That plane found significant updrafts on new cloud growth and began seeding for hail at 5: 45 p .m, in a small area. But, at 5: 53 p.m. storm updrafts weakened, so ,that rainfall stimulation continued to be ,performed on it until 6:12 p.m. when it was terminated. Around 7 p.m. a resurgence of storm growth occurred in the surface trough which was laying across southern Wallace County. Four base planes and the cloud top plane were scrambled. The best storm was seen in southwest Wallace, However, when the aircraft arrived, the best area for seeding lay nearly overhead Sharon ,Springs where rain stimulation began at 7;25 p.m. Seeding " continued only until 7: 29 p.m. ,then patrolled. Closer to Weskan" , one plane found strong new updrafts and seeding for hail began at 7:39 p.m.; a second plane joined in seeding at the same time. The first of the two planes ended seeding at 7:46 p.m.; the second reduced seeding to its rainfall stimulation rate. All seeding ended at '7:59 p.m. and planes returned to their bases with the exception of the cloud top plane which patrolled the storm until 8:15 p.m. JULY 18th/19th - OPERATIONAL DAY #45/46: A surface low pressure center lay in Western Kansas this day and a N-S oriented surface trough stretched southerly along the state line into the Texas Panhandle. With strong afternoon heating, storms began building near Wallace County. Four cloud base planes were scrambled at 3:10 p.m. When the first plane arrived in Wallace County, the storm had moved northeasterly out of the target. All flights were canceled.