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<br />151 F'02 <br /> <br />By 7:32 p.m. radar showed a strong indication of hail over <br />southeastern Grant and southwestern Haskell where two aircraft had <br />been seeding. A third aircraft, seeding weaker storms in northwest <br />Haskell and southern Finney, was sent to assist. The cloud baae <br />plane seeding the storm NNE of the Garden City Airport was brought <br />down to assist at 7:50 p.m. and began seeding there at 8:18 p.m. <br />Since one of the four cloud base planas seeding in Haskell had a <br />generator inoperative and the seeding air space was becoming <br />crowded, one plane was sent to check out storms south of Garden <br />City then on to new storm development in northeast Scott County. <br /> <br />~a.;.;-,..;loud top plane seeded t\~O storm compl~xe8: one, NNE of <br />Garden city Airport; the second, about 10 north of Garden City. ~he <br />plane was moved to the Haskell storm at 8:27 p.m. and seeded from <br />S:45 to 8:S8 p.m. before having to return to Dodge City to land for <br />fuel. Fortunately, as cloud top seeding was ending. the storm in <br />HaSKell County was diminishing such that a second cloud base plane <br />could be sent to the Scott County storms. Two othar cloud base <br />planes continued intermittent seeding in southwestern Haskell and <br />southeastern Grant counties until they ran out of seeding agent. <br />The first to end seeding did so at 9:23; the second at 10:06 p.m. <br /> <br />Ona aircraft seeded in northeast Scott County from 9:05 to <br />9:23 p.m., ending when updrafts bec~me negligible. A second plane <br />hadarri ved to assist about tha same timej however, no updrafts <br />were found by either aircraft, so both landed at 8co~t City tor <br />fuel and generator supply. , <br /> <br />The cloud top plane was airborne again at 10:10 p.m. and went <br />back to the Haskell County storm area. By then the storms were <br />drifting more easterly and dying out. Limited cloud top seeding was <br />performed at 10:40 p.m. before the flight was canceled. ~he first <br />cloud base plane to land for resupply was back in the air at 10:22 <br />p.m.; 'it went to HaSKell county to monitor the, storm areather~. <br />However, nothing was found and the flight was terminated at 11:03 <br />p.~. No new severe storms occurred afterward. Flight time for the <br />day's operationa totaled 22.5 hours. <br /> <br />Curtis D. Smith <br /> <br />~J~'/J:L~ <br /> <br />Program Manager, <br />Western Kansas Weather Modification <br />