WMOD00043

• Contract/Permit #: Denied
• Applicant: Western Kansas Groundwater
• Project Name: Kansas Weather Modification
• Title: Denied
• Date: 1/1/1996
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Proof of Public Notice

OPERATIONS: The upper ridge west of us last week continued to
dominate the weather patter. In the first part of the week early
morning fog and drizzle were the nonn. Easterly winds at the
surface and aloft brought ~n considerable moisture. By the end of
the period a cold low pressure center aloft in Wyoming dropped
southeast into Colorado and Kansas weakening to become a trough
helping produce thunderstorms and widespread rainfall.

There were 5 observation flights August 26th. storms showing
hail on radar that day were relativelY short-lived and limited in
growth and development. Two storms were seen having hail, one in
Ford county, the other in Hamilton. All times below are in CDT.

AUGUST 25th - OPERATIONAL DAY #69: Mid-afternoon clusters of
thunderstorms began torming almost randomly around Northwestern and
Western Kansas, being most intense in Gove County, north of Lane,.
A second area of development wsznear .Sharon,.Springs.' storiiis iiivvQ\A
southwesterly into Lane with four cloud base planes scrambled at
5:10 p.m. and the cloud top plane getting ready for launch.

seeding first began in northeast Lane County at 5:32 p.m. A
second plane was assisting in Lane County on the same cluster of
storms at 5:48 p.m. A third plane was sent to a small cluster of
storms which had developed about 10 miles northeast of Leoti, where
seeding began at 5:55 p.m. The fourth plane checked out an area of
storms near Sharon Springs, found nothing, then continued on to
Lane county where it began seeding at 6:18 p.m.

By 6:05 p.m. numerous clusters of storms and small lines of
storms had built and lay in a broad E-Woriented line across the
northern portion of the target area, appearing to be organizing
into solid line oriented E-W. Individually, storms within the line
moved southwesterly. The cloud top plane scrambled at 6:12 p.m. and
began seeding in Scott County around 7 p.m. It eventually worked
over WiChita, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny and Finney counties. The
fifth cloud base plane, requested at 6:21 p.m., began seeding near
Tribune at 7:08 p.m.

By 6:40 p.m. the plane first seeding near Leoti was seeding a
line' of"'storiiis'from 'soiitnwest Wallace Countisoutheast to eastern' ,"',
'Wichita County. By 7:08p.m. the larger E-W oriented line of storms
had become solid, running from northern Greeley/southern Wallace
eastward across WiChita, Scott and Lane counties and further east.

Seeding continued along the line in the "hottest" spots within
it, notably, around southeast Scott/southwest Lane and southwest
Wichita/southeast Greeley counties. By 8:17 p.m. the line was being
seeded across the southern portions of Greeley, Wichita and Scott.
As the solid E-W line moved southerly, seeding continued Over the
northern parts of Hamilton, Kearny and Finney counties. The first
to run out of seeding agent was at 8:40 p.m., the second at 9:05
p.m. The cloud top was low on fuel and returned to its base at that
same time. The first plane to land for seeding agent was airborne
at 9:18 p.m. and seeding near Lakin at 9:22 p.m. A third plane