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<br />2. <br /> <br />p.m. all planes scrambled to northeast-moving storms in northeast <br />Seward and northwest Meade counties; one cloud base plane was down <br />for maintenance temporarily and back in action at 5:23 p.m. <br /> <br />Seeding for hail began over new growth storms about 5 miles <br />south of Copeland at 5:22 p.m. Another plane joined in seeding at <br />5:23 p.m. in the same area. A third plane began seeding for hail <br />a few miles south-southeast of Hugoton at 5:41 p.m. Updrafts soon <br />became spotty in both seeding areas on the line by 5:48 p.m. when <br />seeding ended. The cloud top aircraft was better able to find the <br />, new cloud growth clouds and was seeding by 6 p.m. in extreme south- <br />central Gray County. One cloud base plane began seeding at the <br />north end of the line at 6 p.m. near Montezuma and another was put <br />on patrol in eastern Stevens County to guard against new storms' <br />building into that, area where seeding eventually began at6:38 p.m. <br /> <br />,. .....-., . '.. <br />Not find;:\19.muchfor updrafts on the larger line of storms, <br />especially in Gray County ,cloud base aircraft moved to the other <br />side of the line on its southeast side and found better updrafts; <br />three planes began seeding for hail at 6:10 p.m., Again, within a <br />short period of time, updrafts became weak and hard to find despite <br />earlier radar indications of hail. At 6:25 p.m. two planes were <br />sent back to their bases and another ended seeding. One flight <br />terminated at 6:33 p.m. and' another was sent to protect eastern <br />Stevens County against new storms propagating west toward the towns <br />of Woods and Hugoton. The cloud top plane was ,moved west to protect <br />against westward propagation of storms into Stevens County at 6:38 <br />p.m. In eastern Stevens County cloud base updrafts again became <br />difficult to find and cloud base seeding ended at 6:45 p.m., only <br />to be continued by cloud top seeding at the same time. Patrolling <br />continued in the area at cloud base. After some brief seeding <br />passes and cloud movement into non-target area Seward County, the <br />~loud top aircraft moved to the northeast near Cimarron. <br /> <br />The two aircraft patrolling Stevens County were sent to the <br />southwest corner of the county to meet an intensifying storm moving <br />east-northeast; seeding began at 7:21 p.m. on weak updrafts. The <br />cloud top plane was diverted from .the Cimarrona,rea back to Stevens' <br />County and began'seedirig in'extreine northwest Seward County on'new <br />growth building west into northeast, Stevens County. Cloud base <br />seeding in southwest Stevens ended at 7:35 p.m. One of the cloud <br />base planes subsequently found strong updrafts on an isolated storm <br />near Hugoton and began seeding at 7:46 p.m.; the second cloud base <br />plane also began seeding the same storm at 8 p.m. However, the <br />seeded storm was short-lived and seeding ended at 8:17 p.m. The <br />aircraft were then diverted back to the southwest corner of Stevens <br />County to a previously seeded storm cluster in that area. The <br />cloud top plane had to quit seeding and land for fuel, leaving the <br />Stevens County area at 8:03 p.m. <br /> <br />The two diverted planes began seeding the previously seeded <br />area of storms in southwest Stevens at 8:32 p.m. Another cloud <br />base plane had been scrambled earlier, at 8:11 p.m., to assist in <br />southwest Stevens County. It arrived there and began seeding at <br />