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. AUGUST 4th _ OPERATIONAL DAY #59: Atmospheric in~tability continued from the previous evening into the early morn~ng. ~t 12:2~ a.m. three cloud base planes were scrambled to a NE-SW or~ented l~ne of storms in wallace and Greeley counties, the strongest storm lay about 10 miles northwest of Tribune. Seeding began in north-central Greeley county at 12:54 a.m., a second began at 1:14 a.m. Seeding continued until 1:25 a.m. Late in the afternoon severe storms built in and around a NE-~ SW oriented surface trough which lay across Northwest Kansas. F9u~, cloud base planes were scrambled to southwest Hamilton County on a developing line of storms at 4 p.m. As the line ,of storms m~ved ' eastward, individual cells within it moved northeast upthel~ne. The fifth cloud base plane was scrambled at 4:17 p .m. wh~;liO.::",u~U~:i began at 4:17 p.m. storm outflows pushed southeast out of the l~ne triggering a new line of storms parallel to the first, Other planes began seeding for hail along the line southwest of Syracuse at 4:26, 4:29 and 4:32 p.m., respectively. The fifth plane up began seeding for hail near Kendall at 5:00 p.m. The nearly parallel line of storms, east of the first line, grew to eventually merge with the original line such that a new NE- SW oriented line running from northwest Kearny to southeast Hamilton and south-central Stanton was formed by 5:20 p.m.; the most intense part of the line lay in two primary areas by 5: 50 p.m.---aoutheast Hamilton and northwest Kearny counties. At 5:45 p.m. the cloud top plane began seeding over south-central Stanton. As the line moved east, new cloud growth continued building on its extreme south end and the cloud top plane generally followed it seeding east-west across Stanton and Grant counties, ending only at 7:52 p.m. in northern Grant around the Grant-Kearny-Haskell-Finney 4-corner area, As the NE-5W line of storms was being seeded at cloud base, it moved eastward laying over Scott and Lane counties on its northeast .end,. <th~ri.,~C"r,o~'a':.'~W'es.t-s~.n F.i.nney. :and..:east.ern.: ~.earn}'- cO\lntles' in its- central part and further southwest across central Grant County , finally en~in~ in eastern Stanton. Cloud base seeding was done over Kearny, W~ch~ ta, Grant, Finney, Lane and Gray' counties before passing out of the target area. Seeding wound down from 6:46 p.m. with one plane ending at that time, a second at 7:42 p.m., two more at 7:56 p.m. and the last at 8:35 p.m. ' AUGUST 8th- OPERATIONAL DAY #60: By early afternoon a cluster of storms had begun forming in eastern Grant, central Haskell, Seward and southern Gray counties. Four cloud base planes initially scrambled at 1:55 p.m., the most intense storm was building near Copeland. Seeding for hail began near Copeland at 2:47 p.m., a second plane began on a storm near Montezuma while others seeded in Haskell County, near Sublette and satanta, as well as in eastern Grant County.