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<br />On page 36, Figs. 6 and 7 display graphs of the monthly hail claim distribution for both <br />the WKWMP target area and the State of Kansas. Interestingly, Fig. 7 shows for the rest of <br />Kansas, excluding the WKWMP, that May was much worse of a hail month, proportionately, <br />than it was in June which was just the reverse as Fig. 6 shows. <br /> <br />Table 8, on page 37, shows variously how the WKWMP counties fared during the worst 6 <br />days in the 1999 season, That is, the table shows which 6 days producing the greatest numbers of <br />hail claims in each target area and for the overall WKWMP area during the season. In the lower <br />left-hand part of Table 8 is shown the 6 most-damaging days for the overall WKWMP target area. <br />Of the total number of 1999 claims for the total WKWMP, the percentage of claims for these six <br />highest days was 51.5%, well below long-term average of63.2% for 14 previous years back to <br />1985. The new average is 62.4%. Upon closer inspection, one sees that only one of the 6-worst <br />hail damage-days in either area were common to one of the 6-worst days in the other. <br /> <br />Looking more closely into the actual time periods that storms really did the most damage <br />we noted there were at least three very damaging overnight periods mentioned early in this <br />section. If you count the overnight event period as a single event instead of two days, things <br />changed and fell more in line with the usual pattern. The six 'new' days then came out like this: <br />(1) June lO/llth = 766 claims, (2) May 31st/Jun 1st = 462 claims, (3) June 3D/July 1st = 499 <br />claims, (4) May 16th = 376, (5) June 22nd = 179, and (6) June 18th = 174. Total claims = 2,456 <br />or, 62.8% ofthe season total. So, in actuality, 1999 was a year which wasn't particularly different <br />than recent years in how damage was distributed, it mattered most when the storms occurred and <br />to which day the hail damage was assigned. <br /> <br />Finally, we updated our "maximum" one-day hail claim damage table seen in Table 9, also <br />on page 37. May 16th was our worst day with 376 claims. All of the damage occurred in the <br />southern target area and the storm itself has been mentioned several times already in this report. <br />Choosing this method as a means of comparing seeding results from one year to the next has its <br />limitations as we've seen when it comes to discussing damage from one storm sequence-which <br />extends overnight. Most of the time, severe storms are seedable, however, this season saw some <br />big ones pass through the region either with limited cloud base/cloud-top seeding possibility, or. <br />no possibility, as we've mentioned earlier. If it' s worthwhile to look for seeding performance on <br />large storm days, then the large storm on May 16th fits into that category since it devastated 3 <br />counties to the east of Lane County after first passing through Greeley, Wichita, Scott and Lane <br />counties and was being seeded along its entire track across the target area by all available aircraft. <br />In any event, there were 376 claims submitted from this hail-day, coincidentally the exact number <br />of claims as the worst hail-day in 1998. This puts the worst hail-day recorded in 1999 toward the <br />bottom of the barrel, tying for 3rd and 4th from the bottom of the 'worst' days in the past 15 <br />years. <br /> <br />35 <br />