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<br />JULY 10th---OPERATIONAL DAY #23: Visually, storms began forming
<br />arour.d Soott and Lana counties around 1: 00 p, m, with two base
<br />planes and the oloud top plane being-scrambled, Seeding began in
<br />N, Lane County at 1: 17 p.IO, and in N, Scott County at 1: 42 . p, ro.
<br />Storm movements were to the ESE. By 2:06 p,m, the storms in Lane
<br />and Scott County were weak in comparison to a new, strong hail-
<br />bearing storm complex over SE Logan and SVI Gave counties. Seeding
<br />began in that area at 2:07 p.m,: two base planes and the cloud top
<br />plane (at 2: 25 p. ro.) eventually worked the are.!l of stm'ms as it
<br />moved into HE Scutt and NW Lane counties, Meanwhile, isolated
<br />..terms fanned just south of Stanton County and A ",econd near
<br />Syracuse: the third base plane launched at 2:27 p.m.
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<br />By :3 p. m. a new line 01 qui<;;kly int",l\sifying ",tonns had forlued
<br />across Gove County, :SW across LalH~1 SCLltt, Wichita., Kearny and
<br />Hamilton counties then further into Prowers County (Colorado).
<br />Se...ding wile able Lu 1>0 moved to the 50uthern portions of Wichita
<br />and Scott cDunties when the seeded storm in NE Scott and NV Lane
<br />became 11on-h",i I-b6't", i ng. One bas8 aircraft began seeding along the
<br />portion at that line of storms in SW Hamilton and 8E Prow!!!rs
<br />counties that eventually moved into Stanton. Beeding in BE Prowers
<br />County and NE Baca COlmty was perfonned for 35 )TIi nutes bet w~en :3: 16
<br />p.m. and 4;05 P,lilo with 70 graIns at silver iodide burnEJd,
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<br />Soeding along the linG of storms continued over Kearny and
<br />Finney counties as it pushed so\.\thwal-d. One cloud base plane and
<br />a cloud top pla,ne wOI"ked another new area' of severe storms over
<br />eastern G,-ant and western Haskell counties, howevt!I-, both ran out
<br />of seeding agent and had to terminate their flights at 4:51 and
<br />5: 013 p.Ill.. n::spectively. The other two cloud ba.se aircraft
<br />similarly had to terminate for lack of seeding agent and/or
<br />genel'ato!- malfunctit;lning at 5: 06 p, m, leaving subsequent new hail-
<br />producing storms to go un~eoded in Haskell County thereafter. All
<br />cloud. base aircraft became ail-btJrne aBain later, however, only a
<br />short 13 minutes of seeding fOl-. rainfAll augmentation \"as performed
<br />by one of tb~m in Haskell County from 6:14 p.m, to 6:27 p.m,
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<br />JULY l1th---OPERATIONAL DAY #24: One plane was initially sent to
<br />check out weak new storm developm~nt near Greeley County at 1:43
<br />p. m. A br~ef periud of I-ain augmentation seeding began at 2: 1.3
<br />p,m. in N, Hamilton County for effect in Kearny, however, a strong,
<br />new E-W oriented line of storms began fonuing further north. All
<br />other aircre>.ft were soon sOI'ambled, Two base planes seeded E-W
<br />along a slll...ll lin," of severe stor'ms north of Scott County and
<br />followed the line through southern Scott into Finney County, the
<br />third base plane seeded in SW Ham11ton-NW Stanton counties before
<br />going north to seed .on a val'y intense storm that built in NW
<br />Hallli 1 ton-,BE Gree ley 'Ind moved into SW Wichi ta - NW Kearny count ies.
<br />The cloud top plalle was adversely affected by heavy cirrus blowoff
<br />into possible seed~ng tra9ks and, therefore, was able to work only
<br />briefly in Greeley and Wichita counties, The Greeley-Wichita stor~
<br />was not able to be 6eeded propel-ly nor seeded by sufficient numbers
<br />of aircraft prior to its collapse in southern Wichita and northern
<br />Kearny counties, Seeding shifted into southern Sta.nton County
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