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JULY 16th - OPERATIONAl; DAY #32: An isolated thunderstorm began forming west of Stanton County in late afternoon. Three cloud base aircraft planes were initially scrambled at 4:30 p.m., however, two were recalled before take-off due to the cloud collapsing in short order; the third flight was terminated at 5 p.m. At 5:55 p.m. another storm complex developed near SW Hamilton and NW Stanton, just west of the state line. storm movements were mostly east-northeast to northeast at this time. Three planes were scrambled. Seeding began at 6:20 p.m. for rain increase, however, increased updrafts required hail suppression to be be~un at 6:22 p.m. A second plane began seeding at 6:25 p.m., whereas, the third aircraft was diverted to a new storm near Coolidge and at 6:.38 p.m. beqan seeding in western and northwestern Hamilton County. The last cloud base plane and the cloud top aircraft were both scrambled at 6:43 p.m.' as overall atarii1 developmentinoreasecl. The laat (;lcu~ base plane scrambled began seeding the north-western Hamilton County cluster of storms along the Hamilton and Greeley County line at 7; 17 p.m. as it elongated into a larger ENE-wSW line over Greeley and Wichita counties. At 6:58 p.m. one of the two planes in southern Hamilton count~ was diverted to the north to help the other two planes on the developing line. The last plane in southern Hamilton flew to an intensifying E-W line of storms across northern Finney/southern Wichita/southern Scott counties where seeding began at 7:20 p.m. This new line was in the process of merging with the ENE-WSW line of storms in Greeley and Wichita counties. The cloud top aircraft began seeding over soott County at 7:41 p.m. and extended seeding into Wichita county along the line. Unfortunately, hail was bein~ ejecte~ out of the clouds in the line directly into the flight path of the cloud top seeding plane and it was unable to work the line after 7:55 p.m. It did perform some seeding further east in SCQtt and Lane counties on isolated smaller storms and returned to its base at 8:35 p.m. Seeding continued on the line of storms moving northeastward through Wichita and Scott counties until 9:08 p.m. at which time flight seeding tracks were well north of the county J.inl?s. By thatimeseeding. ended, the radar systempro.blemswe had this week resurfaced making impossible any accurate storm intensit~ measurements or echo area coverage. In retrospect it is likely there was considerable hail produced in eastern Finney, eastern Scott and western Lane counties while our radar was malfunctioning. After seeding ended along the northern tier of counties one plane was sent in to resupply and three others were brought to the south side of enother NE-SW line of storms running from eastern Finney County southwest across Gray, Raskell, Grant and Stanton. By the time the aircraft had penetrated the line, havinQ had to fly through moderate to sev~re turbulence and precipitation, the only seeding which could be performed was performed over portions of Haskell and Gray counties between 10:04 and 1Q:37 p.m. This line was moving southeast thxough the southern part of the target area.