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<br />'j <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />FOREWORD <br /> <br />Generally, this appeared to be a pretty good year for many -in <br />the regional agricultural community. Moisture was near-perfect over <br />winter and favorable rains were timely in spring as well as most of <br />the rest of the summer, although August was a dry month for many <br />parts of Western and Southwestern Kansas. Kansas set a new record <br />for wheat harvested this year, primarily due to the ex.cellent <br />weather leading up to harvest. Pastures were green mast of the <br />summer as well. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Hail damage to crops, according to crop-hail insurance <br />statistics through the end of August, amounted to 2.927 clahns <br />making it the third worst year for hail damage to the Western <br />Kansas Weather Modification Program. About 90% of the total number <br />of insurance claims are submitted each year is for damage before <br />July 1st. Insurance hail damage claims indicated June 19th was the <br />worst single hail-damaging day in the weather modification program <br />participating counties for the past 16 years. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />For our part we had an almost-normally active year, being just <br />below a normal 49.5 operational days to 47 for the 4-month period <br />in 1990. We had an excellent group of pilots to work with in 1990; <br />they were eager, alert and professional in their work. This <br />program has been fortunate to have had so many highly capable <br />pilots attached to it the past several years. <br /> <br />This report summarizes the operational activities of the 1990 <br />WKWM Program season, updates previous summaries of interest and <br />presents crop-hail damage insurance claims distribution for the <br />state ~s well as regional rainfall distribution. <br />