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<br />to $Outhern Greeley County briefly to check out a we4k storm there vhile
<br />the other three base planes werked near Kendall, The cloud top aircraft
<br />began seeding new storms south of Coolidge around 7:42 P,Jl, Selllding
<br />continued along the line ~s the oells moved up the line. closer to Lakin;
<br />the cloud top plane seeded along the line eastwa:rd into Kearny and
<br />north-central Finney counties, 'At 3:38 p,m, one plane was lllent to
<br />southern Lane County and two were sent to the Greeley/Vichita county line
<br />area for storm evaluation, Nothing much 1>'/1.$ found and one f li~ht was
<br />terltinated, The others were brought back to the line of cells in
<br />HlloJli1ton County where one areat near Kenda.l1 began developing strongly.
<br />indicating hail at 4:03 P,llI, and a second Il.long the H.ardlton-'Stanton
<br />county line, Eventuallv. two cloud base aircraft each had one of its
<br />generators run dry of seeding agent while, seeding and by 4:4B p,m. the!
<br />cloud top aircraft had to end $eeding and return ior fuel, Finally. one
<br />aircraft ran out of seeding agent and had to land at 5:10 p._, Seeding
<br />vas shifted to the southwest from Kendall toward southern Hamilton, A
<br />resupp'iiefj' cloud base plane was on site Seedil1>i '"'~ ~:23 p,"". then. at
<br />5:28 P,lR, atnother aircraEt went down to one genet'e,tor and at 5:45 it 114$
<br />totally out of sl!leding agent, This left ono plane seeding with t"o
<br />gene:rators and one with just one usable generator to 5eed in :south~n
<br />Haftilton and northern Stanton. At 5;57 p,m, only one aircraft was left
<br />to seed the line, Fort~ately, cloud base updrafts had decreased near
<br />that tillle and rainfall augltentation was performed, The cloud top
<br />aircraft was airborne On a $eOOnd flight at 6:15, however. it developed
<br />vacuun pump problems and had to land for repair,
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<br />The line of cells continued building as the front ~oved !Southward
<br />with seeding continuing, A resupplied aircraft vas able to find stronger
<br />updrafts near Manter and seeding there at 6:29 p,m, Another resupplied
<br />aircraft got airborne and found another area of strong new cloud growth
<br />near Big Bow in Stanton County, Sustained updrafts were difficult to
<br />loea te as the operation continued, The I inlll of cells appeared to have
<br />significant new growth on'both sides of the line in different parts of
<br />it as it lay aCro$$ $Outhern Stanton County, The fourth cloud ba$e plane
<br />was airborne a second ti~e after getting resupplied and was seeding near
<br />Hanter at B:03 p,a.--all cloud base pl",nes were working NE-5V across
<br />Stanton County, One plll.ne ran out of seeding agent at 9:03 p,m, and had
<br />to land, but around this time rain stimulation was being perforlRed cn
<br />weaker updraft areas in the clov.ds, All llleeding ended by 10: 08 p ,..
<br />Total flight tillle this day totaled 28,1 hours,
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<br />,JTJNF: 2or! OPERATIONAl DIlV ;f:14: tate in thlllatternoon,ilt 6 p.lO" .. ..ingle
<br />stat-Ill had. begun forllling near Kendall and all planes vere scrAlllbled,
<br />Before all planes could take-off. three of thelll were canceled Some rain
<br />stililulation V~ perforllled about 10 north of Kendall blllginning at 5: 25
<br />p, III, However. hai 1 was indicated at 5 : 44 p, Ill, and hail reduct ion
<br />seeding was started by one aircraft. a second joined up at 5:51 p,., and
<br />all other aircraf t were seralll.hled, lI. third plane joined in seedin9' at.
<br />6: 10 P,JII, Seeding continued around Syracuse, Soon. clClv.d developllent
<br />vent into a lull for a brief period and one aircraft landed at its nearby
<br />base, Shortly after the cloud top aircre.ft becAllle airborne. it developed
<br />a turbocharger probleJl and had to land and was repaired within a couple
<br />of hours, Seeding followed new growth into north-central Haailton County
<br />and southern Greeley before leaving that area at 6:59 p,a, to go to
<br />50uthern Grallt County \!Ihere Mil showed on radar at 6:55 p.JI" Seeding
<br />concentrated south of Ulysses 4nd from there to the south; however. new
<br />stor~s gre~ to the south and to the west into Stanton County to becoae 4
<br />.ore solid line making sustained updrafts difficult to locate and work,
<br />Hail was indioated by 7:49 p,JI" in extre~e south-eent~al Stanton County;
<br />seeding began there at 7:54 p,JI" By 8:04 p.m, precipitation had filled
<br />in the updraft resion and seeding was ended. No other flights "e:j:'fl made,
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