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When calling, please giva your name, address, telQPbon~ n1.lllll>ar,. and the townlllhip, range and section nlUIlbe.r where your rainguage is (o~ will he) located. You will be contacted latar t~ia summer or 1n the fall. , " ~=g~~~~_%~~~~~~~QE~a~c~~~~~=~=~~~~~~~~~~~c~~~=~~;_=~~~~~~~~a~==== OPERATIONS (All t.illlEoS g1 ven ar" CDT): JULY 24th - OPERATIONAL DAY #34: By late aft~'noon a single large storm devQlopl:\d in Northwest. }Cantles and began moving southerly. All planes wel:e launchlild to Iile~d it bQtwQen 6:30 p.m. and 6:35 p.m. Th~ storm was firat seaded out~idQ the target area in Logan County at 7:13 p.m. as it was pushing south toward nOl:thwQlilt Wichita County. By 7:18 p.m. all four cloud basa planes were ssedingthe multi-corQ storm. The cloud top aircraft ~gan seeding at 7:56 p.m. after the atorm had entered Wichita County. ~ha Slt.orlll diad suddenly neal:' the ~_rny County line and did not. Qnta.t' Kearny county. Va,dOUliI aiz8s of hiBil, including llu:ge hail, W61.l'e re.pc:u:ted trow the storm in. wliIstern Wichita County as. well <is in and around teet.i. At the same t.imQ the sto.un in Wichits County Willi! being sli!eded a separate aaVilre storm, of appxoximat.~ly identical severity, had moved southerly fraw neSI' Qoodland into Wallace County. One cloud base plane and the cloud top plane were moved to the Wallace storm at 8JS2 p.m. f~'oIn t118 dying Wichita l;Itorm; anot.her cloud base aircraft went to Wallace County at 8:58 p.m. and the la8to~e at 9:03 p.m. About iI half hour later, ther/;! waS a new, but smaller, alivere storm that developed near ~ydia out of the o~d abandoned storm complex; howevQ~t it did not pBr$ist very long sa it mov~ a.utward along th" ~outhal:n pa;rt of Wlcl1i ta County. The cloud top plane began seQding toe southerly moving Wallaco $torln at 9:03 p.m. over southwestern Wa.lJacelno.rthwestern GI.r.aellilf countiea---~ndoubtedly already producing large hail. Between 9:08 and 9:11 p.m. all claud base planes had begun ~Qeding it. At the same ti~, a NE-$W orient9d line of seVQre storms, Qast~~ly moving across Eastern Colorado, was converging with the Wallace storm. The Cloud top plane ran out of dry ics at 9:37 p.m. and returned to ita base. As the two cloud systems converged, cloud updratta and new g-rowt.h becanllil chaotic; ain:ra!"l bad difflcul ty finding appropriatlil UQaa in which tOSEled and were rooVQd to,Cl.nother lineaf ..asterly- moving aeV6lre storms on tIle stftte linli near Stanton County at 9:5'7 p.m. seeding WBa initiated on the Stanton stor~DS in nort.bw~Qte.rn Stanton beginning at 10: 01 p.lI!. working north-to-south along the ljne as the it moved acros~ Southwestern ~an~a8, thlin working OVet' BBlllilton,' Kearny,. Grant, Finney, Gl"ay and Haskell oounties. one aircraft Pagan running out of seeding agent at 10:14 p.m.; the tirat flight ending wag at 10:52 p.m. and the ls.st at 11:18 p.m. ~he cloud top plane got airborne a second time at. 11:05 p.m., howaver, when .J.t l'!i;l.!lc!iad ~eeding altitudlll, ~1l0ilt. storm cella ware weakar and not severe. By the time clOUd ba~Q aircraft wmre ready to launoh a second time, the line was moving ea9tward too faat for any of them to launch and be able to perform useful seeding in Ford County. Total flight time on this operation was 22.6 hours.