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aircraft was scrambled at 8:31 p.m. and began seeding at 9:20 p.m. See~ing tor hatl continued into aast-central Hamilton and western Kearny oounties then further southeast into southern Kearny and northern Grant. As seeding was winding down in southern Grant County, one airplane was diverted northward toward Wichita County at 10:19 p.m.; the seQond and third left at 10:26 an~ 10:30 p.m., respectively. rhe fourth cloud base plane ended seeding at 10:48 p.m. and returned to its base for re-supply and fuel. 'l'he cloud top plane waa acrambled at 9:15 p.m. when a large new multiple-celled storm complex was identified north of Wichita County and moving southerly to southeasterly; it began seeding at 10:02 p.m., however, most new ~loud growth W4$ extremely close to the main core of the storm in~hich large hail was being indicated. on radar. ~hia happens when instability i19 very strong and ten de to grossly inhibit cloud top seeding as it in this case. The Oloud top aircraft then was sent to a new N-S oriented line of stormS which lay along the eastern Haskell/western Gray County line at 11:35 p.m. Some seeding was done along the line from 11:47 p.m. to 12:08 a.m. before running out ot dry ice, however, there was no important difference in storm characteristics from the previous aloud seeded. Llle the cloud top aircraft, the three aloud base aircraft which went to the Wichita/Scott complex from Grant County also all had great difficulty finding updrafts despite the extremely high intensity showing within the separate cores. Finally, at 11:15 p.m., a line of updrafts was encountered in southeAst Wichita and southwest Scott counties into which all three cloud base planes could seed. The other two planes joined at 11:20 and 11:34 p.m. In retrospect, neither the Cloud top plane nor the cloud base planes were able to seed this complex effectively while it passed across most of WiChita and Soott counties. However, as the complex moved to the southeast across northwest and northcentral Finney County into northwest Gray, seeding position improved. The storm complex continued to be seeded until the oloud bases fell apart and the storm oOllapsed into lighter showers. All cloudb~e~ planes ended seeding at 12:35 a.m. Total flight time was 29.2 hours. AUGUST 9th - OPERATIONAL DAY #42: At 3:25 p.m. 4 nortbeasterly mOVing, isolated severe storm built a few miles north of Bolly, CO, necessitating scrambling all aircraft. However, while three cloud base aircraft were en route to the storm, storm intensities began pulsing, first falling, then rising again. The flight of the cloud top plane was oancelled as was the flight of the fourth cloud base plane. The storm was first seeded at 4:02 p.m. near Horace (Greeley County) and the other two planes jOined in seeding at 4:12 and 4:17 p.m., raspectiVely. New storm growth built on the NW corner of the Btorm as it moved northeasterly with seeding continuing into south- east Wallace County. Seeding ended at 4:43 p.m. with no further st;orm development afterward. All severe storms remained well north of the target area the rest of the day. Total flight time this dai was 4.2 hours.