Launch or test range · United States

Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

Recorded as: NAWCWD

The U.S. Navy's weapons test centre, whose sea range lies off Southern California.

Launch and test ranges announce the sea areas that may be dangerous during a rocket launch, a missile test or the recovery of spent stages: where parts may fall, and in which time windows. Their warnings are among the most precisely defined in the archive — polygons with start and end times that cancel themselves when the last window closes.

What the archive holds

82 messages in this archive record NAWCWD as their authority, issued from 2018-06-26 to 2024-03-15. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 55 of 82 recorded messages (67%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA XII.

Located messages lie in 1 sea area, most often North Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2022, with 37 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in August and least often in June.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA XII (82).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA XII 82

North Pacific Ocean 58

Most recently issued

Earliest in the archive

NAVAREA XII 251/18 · Missiles2018-06-25
Hazardous operations, rocket launching 291900Z to 300001Z jun, 301500Z jun to 010001Z jul and 011700Z to…

Other launch or test ranges in NAVAREA XII

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.