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such storm was the most devastating one to hit our target area in the past 20 years when considering crop losses. On June 9th a storm moved through Cheyenne and Kiowa counties in Colorado, being tornadic there. It moved southeasterly into Kansas across prime wheat land first entering the WKWM Target Area in western Greeley County. Then it continued through Hamilton County aver the towns of Syracuse and Kendall before passing into and through southeast Kearny County and further into northwestern Grant where it also hit Ulysses. It left our target area in Grant County by going aut through south-central Grant into Seward County where it intensified then tracked more southerly passing over Liberal and into Oklahoma. Along the storm track crop devastation was pretty much complete as well as much other property damage losses in cities and-towns; Huge auto losses were sustained by the large dealerships in Liberal. One characteristic of large multiple-celled sev.ere storms, such as the June 9th storm, when they track to the southeast and have low-level moisture feeding into their bases along their southern and southeastern flanks, combined with a strong upper- level jet stream winds. too often affective seeding of the entire multiple-celled system is not possible. Precipitation, including large hail, frequently get thrown out of the cloud to the southeast into the prime areas for seeding, both for cloud top seeding and cloud base seeding. In fact, experience has taught us that large hail can be ejected in all directions by these type of storms. This year more large storms of this variety appeared than in the past two year with high moisture present. This year there were 14 days in which seeding flight times were mare than 20 hours for the 5 aircraft, 3 of them having more than 30 hours. In the two previous seasons in which we also operated 5 planes, 1993 had 8 storm days with seeding flight hours of 20 hours, or more, and none greater than 30 hours; in 1992 there were 13 with 20 hours, or more, and 2 with 30 hours, or more. Regarding point (2), above: According to the latest crop insurance statistics, all counties wi thin the WKWM Target Area insured much more heavily in 1993 than in 1992. These insurance statistics confirm the validity of the thesis proposed in last year's Final Report (page 22) that more hail insurance is written in years in which the early wheat crop looks good and has generally excellent soil moisture. Second, if there could be identical amounts of hail in two consecutive years, the year with the greater insurance coverage will give the mistaken appearance of hail being worse one year than the other when, in fact, it was the same. By extension, it is quite likely in 1994 there was a similar amount of liability written as there was in 1993, perhaps even more. 23