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<br />,2. <br /> <br />< <br />, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Seeding continued on the line,into n~rthwestern Lane thereafter. At <br />11:57 p,m. a plane began seed~ng an ~solat~dstorm near Shallowater <br />and continued until 12:06 a.m. before go~ng to northwestern Lane <br />County where seeding started again at 12:26 a.m,j three others were <br />already seeding there. The last plane got off late due to a problem <br />with a generator which was detected a~ter take-off, This last plane <br />also ended up in northwest Lane 6eed~ng at 12:36 a.m. <br /> <br />At 1: 12 a .m. two planes reduced their seeding rates Lane <br />County while another had gravitated into Eastern Finney-Northern <br />Haskell County as new storm development had formed much furt~er <br />southeast as'an extension of the line of storms being seeded,b~ 1t. <br />Two other planes also were sent to assist north of Ingalls at. this <br />time. soon, a general period of weakness developed in the overall <br />storm pattern and one plane returned to its base to resupply at <br />1: 36 a. m.; all others continued seeding for rainfall augmentation. <br />However, at 1:44 a.m., one plane was able to find better updrafts <br />on a storm northeast of the Garden City Airport and seeded there <br />for hail. That storm became embedded and part of an overall larger <br />cluster, or area, of severe thunderstorms which then reorganized <br />into a NE-SW line of storms from near Kalvesta to near the Airport. <br />It lay almost atop the boundary pushing south, its outflows almost <br />certainly reinforcing it producing high winds and strong new severe <br />storm growth further southeast ahead of it in Eastern Finney, Gray <br />and Ford counties. Seeding emphasis shifted to this area by 2 a.m. <br />Planes continued until either the storms were out of Ford County or <br />they had run out of seeding agentj all seeding ended at 3:40 a.m. <br /> <br />JULY 29th - OPERATIONAL DAY #54: By 5:25 p.m. radar indicated one <br />storm within an ENE-WSW oriented area of precipitation in eastern <br />Colorado was nearing hail intensity about 10 north of Holly, COj <br />two cloud base planes were scrambled. NO storm movements could be <br />discerned at the time. Two more planes were scrambled at 5:30 p.m. <br />when the storm north of Holly went well above hail intensity. The <br />last cloud base plane was scrambled at 5:40 p.m. Seeding began at <br />5:47 p.m. with others beginning at 5:53, 5:56, 6:06 and 6:27 p.m. <br />It soon became a cluster of cells as it moved east-southeast into <br />northeast Hamilton. It split apart from the line as it intensified, <br />tra,ckingsouth-,southeasterly through western Hamil ton Count.y into <br />no~thwest and western Stanton County before collapsing. Seeding for <br />hall was performed on the storm until 7:35 p,m. by which time radar <br />intensi ties had become lower; rain augmentation continued afterward <br />~ntil 7:41 p~m. However, a brief intensification in a nearby storm <br />~n northern Stanton was seeded for hail by three airplanes between <br />7:49 and 7:56 p.m. then patrolled. Between 7:56 and 6:12 p.m, all <br />flights were terminated. The cloud top plane also checked' out the <br />cluster and performed limited seeding between 7:27 and 7:31 p.m. <br /> <br />JULY 31st/AUGUST 1st - OPERATIONAL DAYS #55/#56: In the early <br />morning a large, isolated severe storm moved southeasterly through <br />northeastern Colorado to 10 miles northwest of Towner, CO. At 5:30 <br />a.m. . four of our five cloud base planes were scrambled and began <br />seed1ng for ha~l at 5:58 a.m. near Towner. Others began seeding at <br />6:10, 6:15 and 6:17 a.m. The cloud system was seeded by the four <br />