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<br />\ <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />\ <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />! I <br />I <br />I \ <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />\ <br />I <br /> <br />Table 9, below, shows most damaging hail-days for the southern WKWMP target area <br />back to 1985. One point to remember is that there was a natural tendency toward having more hail <br />occur in the period of the early-to-mid 19905, particularly 1993 and 1996. <br /> <br />This year, June 14th was the most claimed hail-day with 376 claims. Damage was confined <br />to Stanton (223), Grant (146) and Hamilton (7) counties in the southern area. June 14th was also <br />third lowest for all such yearly maximum hail-days in the 14-year period back to 1985. <br /> <br />Two other days in 1998 also had over 300 claims: May 24th and June 22nd, with 362 and <br />323 claims, respectively. Most of the damage for all three days occurred in the southern area, <br />whereas, the northern area had only one 'big' hail-day, May 22nd, with 215 claims. <br /> <br />. Total hail damage in any year is expected to be higWy variable, butwhat's conspicuous <br />the past two seasons is our back-to-back years of significant decreases in crop hail losses which is <br />coincident with the arrival of our 9-plane program beginning last year. In 1997's Final Report we <br />stated the belief that our increased aircraft numbers contributed much to reducing the amount of <br />crop-damaging hail from super cells and other large storms. Such storms require large amounts of <br />well-dispersed seeding agents put into them to effectively reduce hail. Very damaging large storms <br />have a steady supply of new growth clouds which form attached to the parent storm and which <br />sustain it. Often, large storms become very complex in the way they organize and relatively few <br />planes are less likely to introduce adequate amounts of seeding agents into all of the new growth <br />clouds than are greater numbers of planes. <br /> <br />TABLE 9 <br /> <br />SOUTHERN WKWMP TARGET AREA <br /> <br />MAXIMUM ONE-DAY HAIL CLAIMS <br />ALL SEASONS 1985 - 1998 <br /> <br /> NUMBER Of <br /> NUMBER OF CLAIMS PARTICIPATING <br />RANK DATE CLAIMS Of PLANES PER PLANE OF COUNTIES <br />1 une 18 1993 949 5 190 13 <br />2 une 19, 1990 B40 4 210 11 <br />3 une 10, 1994 821 5 164 13 <br />4 May 13 1985 764 4 196 13 <br />5 une 26, 1989 745 4 186 11 <br />6 May 26, 1996 750 6 125 14 <br />7 une 27 1992 544 5 109 13 <br />8 June 17 1987 S27 4 132 10 <br />9 June 23, 1991 462 4 116 12 <br />10 tulv 5, 1997 457 9 51 13 <br />II June 22. 1995 456 4 114 13 <br />12 June 14. 1996 376 9 42 13 <br />13 Mav 3 1985 172 4 43 11 <br />14 tAua 4 1988 117 4 29 10 <br /> <br />32 <br />