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<br />... <br /> <br />3. (1) T-34 cloud-base seeder; based at Johnson City <br />Airport (also used in previous Muddy Road Programs) <br /> <br />4. Data General Computer interfaced with the Enterprise <br />C-Band radar for use in the storage and replay of <br />radar storm data. <br /> <br />5. On-site rawinsonde station made available by the <br />Kansas Water Resources Board. The on-site Data <br />General, computer was used to process the upper <br />air sounding information, plot the adiabatic diagrams <br />and run the convective cloud model and hail potential <br />calculations. <br /> <br />6. (1) Airborne digital radar for on-top seeder aircraft. <br />7. (2) Cloud sampling and data recording systems made <br />available by Kansas Water Resources Board. <br /> <br />C. Design Changes <br /> <br />Equipment additions and modifications permitted expansion of <br />the Muddy Road operating capability along the following lines: <br /> <br />1. With the introduction of .turbo-charged and Jet aircraft, <br />.droppable pyrotechnic seeding ~lares could be injected at or near tops <br />of growing cloud turrets. <br /> <br />2. Nighttime coverage of storms was made possible by <br />the radar-equipped cloud-top seeding aircraft. <br /> <br />3. Positioning of the two turbo-charged Navajo at the <br />improved Lakin Airport enabling positive coordination between air- <br />crews and the radar meteorologist. <br /> <br />6 <br />