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<br />Using only crop-hail insurance claims as an means of comparing <br />crop damage from one year to another has serious limita"Cions. Most <br />often loss-cost data is used to evaluate hail suppression programs. <br />Loss-costs are found by dividing insured crop losses (dollars) by <br />the dollar amount of crop insured (liability) then multiply by 100 <br />to make it a percentage. Unfortunately, yearly crop loss-cost data <br />is unavailable until the year after our summer program ends. But, <br />crop-hail insurance claims can quickly give us an idea of extent of <br />damage, usually within a few days of occurrence. Largely for that <br />reason, we use those data despite some questionable dates as <br />men"Cioned earlier. Tables 3 and 4 next show, respectively: <br /> <br />(1) The monthly number of claims and its percentage of <br />the season total, and <br /> <br />(2) The historic number of hail-days in the WKWM target <br />area and corresponding numbers for hail claims wi thin the <br />WKWM target area each year since the program began in <br />1975 <br /> <br />MONTHLY PERCENTAGE CROP-HAIL DAMAGE DAYS <br />and <br />INSURANCE CLAIMS SUMMARY - WKWM TARGET AREA <br /> <br />- 1993 - <br /> <br />;=:================================================================================= <br /> <br />1993 NUHBER 'l; OF TOTAL 'l; OF CUMULATIVE <br /> OF TOTAL NUl1BER OF TOTAL PERCENTAGE <br />!10N'rH HAIL OAYS HAIL DAYS CLAIl1S CLAIMS HAIL CLAn-iS <br />------------- ============ ============ ------------ ------------ =======::::==== <br />------------- ------------ ------------ <br />APRIL 1 1. 43 % 84 2.10% 2.10% <br />MAY 13 18.57% 500 12.53% 14.63% <br />JUNE 22 31. 43% 2283 57.20% 71. 84% <br />JULY 19 27.14% 214 5.36% 77.20% <br />AUGUST 11 15.71% 548 13.73% 90.93% <br />SEPTEHBER 4 5.71% 362 9.07% 100.00% <br />------------- ------------ ============ ------------ ------------ =======0::==== <br />------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ <br />TOTALS: 70 100.00% 3991 100.00% <br /> <br />===============================================================================~=~~= <br /> <br />TABLE 3 <br /> <br />25 <br />