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<br />f ""I" <br />, Sc <br />A.Sc <br />" <br />I <br />l <br />E <br /> <br /> <br />r- /) r w"EEKL Y NEWSLETTER <br />94-7 <br /> <br />FOR THE PER!OD JUNE 12 ~ 18, 1994 <br /> <br /> <br />General Interest: Around this time each year we invariably receive <br />substantial crop-hail damage, especially wheat. If we look back at <br />the records of crop hail insurance claims for the previous 9 years <br />in each year's target area for the largest numbers of claims each <br />year, we see the follovd.ng: . <br /> <br />.- .-.-....... YEAR DATE CLAIMS YEAR DATE .CLAlMS ......- ..-.- <br /> ;;;;;;;;0== !;;::==~=::;:;::;;;;;;== ~!:=::::r:;:;;:==== ---- :;r;%JS:l::::======= :C=;I3eR::'::=== . <br /> 1985 May 13th 784 1990 Jun 19th 840 <br /> 1986 May 13th 172 1991 Jun 23rd 462 <br /> 1967 Jun 17th 527 1992 Jun 27th 544 <br /> 1988 May 27th 11'7 1993 Jim 18th ()RO' <br /> J~J <br /> 1989 Jun 26th 462 1994 Jun 10th 1,057 (to date) <br /> <br />As far as hail claims are concerned, 7 out of the past 10 <br />seasons' worst storm days each year have occurred in June---and 6 <br />of the 7 have occurred during the 10-day period June 17th through <br />26th. Hencei this time of year is recognized as a particularly <br />critical time by those of us associated with the WKWM Program. To <br />data, our target area has about the same number of crop-hail <br />insurance claims we had for 1993 at the same time of year. <br /> <br />Last year, on .June 18th, a new hail claims record was set for <br />the 19 years of WKWM Program Operation. However, this year, on <br />June 10th, hail claims surpassed those of June 18, 1993, and is the <br />most ever reported of any day (or operation) to-date in the 20 year <br />history of the WKWMprogram. The "big storm" of June 10th was an <br />overnight storm which really began late June 9th, moving south- <br />easterly out of eastern Colorado, over Towner, then across Greeley <br />County, north~central and southeast Hamilton (including Syracuse), <br />then over southwest Kearny, northwest, central and southeast Grant <br />(including Ulysses) and further into Seward County over Liberal <br />(where extensive damage was reported) then into Oklahoma. As the <br />Oltu:c.mfirs't appro/l.chad Ka:'lc3.!l from Colorao.o; it Wo!'.S already <br />reported to be tornadic and producing large hail---a pretty rough <br />storm to begin subduing from the outset. All cloud base aircraft <br />were on the storm by the time it entered Kansas ana were working <br />around it until it exited out the south side of Grant County (the <br />cloud top aircraft joined in seeding just after the storm moved <br />into Kansas). Al though the hailswath was a few miles wide and <br />devastating to crops and property, it looked as if the swath might <br />have been much larger in Colorado just before entering Kansas. <br />We'll never know the extent to which the width of the hailswath may <br />have been decreased by our efforts. As the storm left Kansas in <br />the early morning, it was seen continuing to move southeasterly <br />across Oklahorna---enlarging east and west into a bow-shape and <br />raking most of the state with severe storms. Another series of <br />severe storms developed in northeast Colorado and moved into Kansas <br />by mid-afternoon.June lOth affecting the northwestern parts of the <br />