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L/ it passed through Wallace, Greeley, Wichita, Scott and Lane. At first Wallace County bore the brunt of the most severe storms, but as the line moved southerly the next badly hit counties appeared to ,be Wichita and Scott. By 2:19 a.m. the line had moved through most of the northern part of the target area and was oriented into one large "bow-echo" running from Kalvesta to Cimarron then west across southern Finney-northern Haskell, southern Kearny-northern Grant into southeast Hamil ton. However, planes began running out of seeding agent at 1:46 a.m., losing one generator at a time, then losing a second later. The first to run out of seeding agent was at 1:55 a.m., two othersat-::'2:25 and 2:32 a,m., respectively' The, others were out by 2: 43 a'.m. at which time the line had pushed through most of the target area with only a small portion of Ford and Stevens counties not yet having the line pass through them. Greeley, Hamilton and Stenton counties were unscathed', on this operation. Although stevens County the line passed them, it appears there was no severe weather associated with it. AUGUST 2nd/3rd - OPERATIONAL DAYS #57/#58: By 5:30 in the afternoon a single, large superce11 was seen moving southerly from Northwest Kansas heading to Lane and Scott Counties. All cloud base planes were moved to the Scott City base to get ready for a launch from there. Other severe storms, lay in a NW-SE line from east of Wakeeney into Nebraska, northeast of Goodland. At 7: 02 p. m. all. planes were scrambled to the approaching storm. All planes began seeding at 7:38 p.m. in Gave County and followed the storm as it moved south-southwesterly toward Lane and Scott counties. As the cloud top plane was Climbing to seeding altitude past southwestern Hodgeman County, en route to the storm approaching Lane and Scott counties, new storms were seen beginning to build there. Cloud top seeding was performed in northern Lane County at 8:23 p.m., continuing until 8:33 p.m" at which time it was sent back to the Hodgeman area of storm development which had intensified considerably in the interim. It began seeding around the large cluster of storms in Hodgeman County at 8: 45 p.m. and continued until 10:32 p.m. when fuel ran low and it had to land. Cloud base seeding continued on the line of storms across Scott, Lane ,and Finney counties until 9:52 p.m. at which time two planes were sent to Ford County to seed the old Hodgeman storm which had moved into extreme NW Ford County. By then the new cloud growth between the old Hodgeman-Ford storm and the storm in Lane County formed a nearly solid line oriented NW-SE across the most eastern counties of the target area. The Hodgeman storm didn't begin any serious movement into Ford County until around 9:31 p.m. The other three planes came into eastern Finney-northern Gray for seeding at 10:28 p.m. working along a bow echo moving quickly to the south. One plane ran out of seeding agent at 11: 02 p,m. During this general periOd, other unseeded storms had developed in south-central Ford county, west of Bucklin, which passed southeast out of the Ford County part of the target area.