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<br />DAILY OPERATIONS FLOW CHART <br /> <br />0600 . 1 04S COT <br />Collection of Weather Data, <br />Analysis & Seedability Prediction <br />at Lakin and Colby <br /> <br />~NPUTS- <br />Intemet~NWS, NCAR <br />OUA TS. OTN. TV <br />and RADIO <br /> <br />1045.1100CDT <br /> <br />Lakin & Colby Meteorologist's Conference <br />On Cloud Seedabir and Strat <br /> <br />-Yes- <br />Operate <br /> <br />Safety <br />Criteria <br /> <br />-No- <br />Don't Operate <br /> <br />1100.1200CDT Crew Briefing,Crew <br />Readiness, Seeding <br />Conditions. Strate <br /> <br />-Daily Reports- <br />Forecasts, Weather- <br />Storm-Da Case Flies <br /> <br /> <br />Crew Briefings <br /> <br />1200 COT Until <br />Termination of <br />Seeding Operations <br />or other Tasks Confirm Seeding <br />Strategy and Cloud <br />Res nS9 <br /> <br /> <br />KBUF <br />Broadcast <br /> <br />Radar Monitoring <br />Weather Watch <br /> <br />Systems Compile <br />Maintenance Data <br /> <br /> <br />Documentation <br /> <br />Flight Hail Claim <br />Forms Data <br /> <br /> <br />Data Analyses <br />Re ns <br /> <br />Fig. 4 <br /> <br />In order to reduce hail effectively, it is important to be able to identifY a severe storm as <br />early in its growth stage as possible and start seeding as quickly as possible. Recognition of non- <br />severe storms as opposed to potentially destructive ones requires a fair degree of expertise. At <br />some point WKWMP pilots and meteorologists acquire an ability to distinguish visually between <br />these two types of clouds and with a fairly high level of reliability...which is often critical to getting <br />flights launched in a timely fashion. We prefer not to wait for high radar reflectivity in a cloud to be <br />seen on radar before launching aircraft. In rapidly growing clouds, cloud droplet sizes are not <br />large enough to be "seen" on radar until relatively late in the initial development of severe storms. <br /> <br />Radar becomes an indispensable tool in the identification and tracking of severe storms <br />once they form. The type of radar systems used at both WKWMP sites are Enterprise Electronics. <br />Corporation (EEC) WR-100, a 5-cm wavelength models, nearly identical to many weather radars <br />previously used by the National Weather Service that have relatively recently been replaced by <br />new, 1 O-centimeter wavelength NEXRAD Doppler systems. <br /> <br />16 <br />