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<br />" <br /> <br />WEEKLY NEwSLETTER <br />96-16 <br /> <br />RECEiveD <br />AUG 0 7 1995 <br /> <br />FOR THE PERIOD JULY 27 - AUGUST 2, 1996 <br /> <br />Colorado Watsr <br />ConselVation 6o.2:~ <br /> <br />General Interest: This last week we all lost a good friend of <br />weather modification: Ladd Hitch, of Guymon Oklahoma, passed away. <br />He was an unusual person in many ways---as well as being a great <br />promoter of weather modification. I first met Mr. Hitch at a <br />seminar in Lubbock,a year ago last April. ! found out we had a lot <br />in common in that 'he had been an active supporter of weather <br />modification for many, many years; also, we lived relatively close <br />to each other in this part of the world where we ought to be able <br />to work together. He had a long-standing ambition to get the <br />Panhandle involved in' its own organized weather mOdification <br />pI:"vg:i:'aIu L;;';' eiillance the long-term economic condition for the people <br />of the Panhandle. ' <br /> <br />~or several months last year after our meeting we had frequent <br />contacts and, finally, this year he entered into an agreement with <br />our program for us to provide weather modification services for his <br />ranch on a secondary-target basis. He always was hopeful his state <br />and Panhandle counties would move forward to do whatever needed to <br />be done in order to establish such a program there on a long-term <br />basis. He worked very hard to try to make it happen, Only time will <br />tell whether anyone else will piCk up his banner and continue where <br />he left off, whether this intense ambition of his will ever be <br />realized. <br /> <br />Personally, I'll miss not talking to him anymore, or working <br />to help him realize his weather modification "ambition". He was <br />always interesting, challenging and humorous. Our association was <br />too brief. Oursincere condolences go out to his family and to <br />those who knew him better. <br /> <br />OPERATIONS: There were 5 operational days in which seeding was <br />performed this past week. The upper ridge which lay N-S across the <br />wes~er~ USA most of the week allowed periodi~ upp~r ~rcughs ~~d <br />associated frontal boundaries to pass through Western Kansas. Low <br />level moisture remained high again this week. That, combined with <br />afternoon heating, surface troughing and convective scale <br />interactions, generated numbers of severe thunderstorms which moved <br />southeasterly or east-southeasterly except for the occasional <br />supercell which usually moved in southerly manner. <br /> <br />JULY 28th/29th - OPERATIONAL DAYS *53/#54: Unknown to us at the <br />time was that a cold front or very strong gust front was passing <br />from north to south of us this night and morning. Thunderstorms <br />moved east to east-southeast from Colorado and Northwest KansaS, <br />building NW-SE oriented lines of storms southeast into scott.and <br />Lane counties as a result of the precipitation area being undercut <br />by the boundary creating invigorated individual cells. All cloud <br />base planes were scrambled at 11:09 p.m. Seeding began for hail at <br />11:26 p.m. north of Scott County; two others joined at 11:37 p.m. <br />