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<br />.\ <br /> <br />JIn.:f 25th - OPEAATIONAL MY i35; An eastuly-moving isolated sevllIre <br />IItorm in E.astlllrn Colorado neclissi tat€'d scramblinIJ all p~anQIiI at <br />6:55 p.lll. Howevlilr, the stO.1."lU died Iiluddenly with no "e~ding being <br />per!orlrncd; all flights wer~ quickly cancQlled or t&rminated. <br /> <br />A couple of hounl 1atlilr a nQW lilHil of sev,",XQ storms, orlQnted <br />NE...SW, had moved to a point from NorthweiOt ~anlilas to near Sharon <br />Springs then about 40 miles west of Lamar. At 9:27 p.m. all planea <br />were acrambllild alld liul!edillg began along the state line, near Towner, <br />at 3.0:02 p.m. Il~itia11y, rain stiluulAt.ion wail started in weak <br />updrafts, however, much strange.!." updr'a!"tlil wer.a located a couple of <br />minutes late,r and hail suppreslition was inatituted. All aircraft <br />COnCGUlt.!:B tEld around the pr im8ry storm area as it pushed aoutblilBSit <br />into NW Qr_ley'County at a speed of around 3S mph' and continued <br />IIQQdlng , it as it llIOvlild southeast. acrose portions of thlll other <br />countiee: Hamil ton, Wichita, Kearny, Grant, Stanton, Finney and <br />HaskelL The cloud top planlil also did liIOlDe limited Reeding over <br />Wichi ta t Scott and Lan" be!'o:!:e retu.!.'ning to i tlil DOOglil C;1 ty base. <br />Seeding ended at 12:12 a.m. Total flight time. was 13.3 hOU1'1iI. <br /> <br />JULY 29t.h - OPERATIONAL DAY ~36: A small cold air trough paeuad <br />through the gellQral atlnospheric flow frOlD northwGlJt to liloutheaat <br />triggoil:dng storm development in ~treme Northeast,u:n Colorado <br />before noon. As the day wo.!.'e on, an organized line of storms built <br />in Northwest P::ansas/Northeast Colorado, o.l.'iI;mted ENE-WSW, and moved <br />southeasterly. Initially, a aingl@ severe storm on the ~a.tQrn tip <br />of th~ line moved into Kanaas f1"Om Colorado and, aurpri~ingly, <br />moved ea~LQrly and died. About the same time, a second aQVQ~e <br />Mtorlll had developed nor~hwe~t or Ch~yenne W~lls, Colorado; how~ver, <br />it moved directly south. Four a1rcraft W91'S lilcJ:ambled betwQen 4~.19 <br />p.m. and 4:40 p.m. to meet the southllilasterly moving line of storllllil. <br />Generally, the line of storma were weak, excepting the two severa <br />storms mentioned. The starul patl:ol continued until 5:57 p.m. <br /> <br />one cloud base plane perforlllli!d SlOllle rainfall augmentation <br />briefly in weak updrafts on a part of the line as it moved into <br />weaternGrellfl6lY C:ouniybQtwEle!D' 5:02 p.m. and 5:10 p.lD~ Total <br />flight. tilDe wee 6.A hours. <br /> <br />JULY 29th - OPERATIONAL PAY N37: The convergence cau~Qdby an upper <br />low pres2ure center centered over SW Kansas this afternoon combined <br />with 8ur!ace hQat~ng and a north-south oriented jet str6laJD overhead <br />c:reato;ld a favorable Qllvironmellt for thundenltol."m dfllVQlopllIQnt. An <br />isolated SQvere storm c~nplex first devaloped near Kinsley, west of <br />Ford County---b.arely outside the target area. Other 9111alle1', weaker <br />clouds were appearing at the same time in~idQ Ford County. At first <br />two cloud base planes were 8cra.tnbled as! a p1"ecaution at 6:25 p.m., <br />however, 12 minutea later the other two base seedClors WQ:rllt sorambled <br />as well. While the. 'aircraft were enroule, a uinglQatorm developed <br />a few miles aouth of Spearville and blilcame severe, indicating crop- <br />damaging hail was present in it. The firat two planes began seeding <br />at 7:13 p.m. and tbp other two at 7~25 and 7:37 p.m., respectively. <br />St,orln nlOVemellt.. were south to lOout.h-sout.hweat and the high radar <br />reflectivity center was about 2 miles wide. ThQo liIto.rm WilS seed6Ki <br />