Launch or test range · United States

Pacific Missile Range Facility

Recorded as: PACMISRANFAC

The U.S. Navy's missile range off Kauai, Hawaii, whose tests close areas of the central Pacific.

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

239 messages in this archive record PACMISRANFAC as their authority, issued from 2002-06-09 to 2024-03-29. 1 of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Missiles accounts for 133 of 239 recorded messages (56%), 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 3 sea areas, most often North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2022, with 28 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 June and least often in February.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA XII (228) and HYDROPAC (11).

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA XII 228

Newest in force · 1

  1. NAVAREA XII 93/23 · Missiles · North Pacific Ocean2023-02-28 · in force
    Intermittent missile firing operations conducted by the pacific missile range facility (pmrf), barking…

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA XII 207/24 · Other2024-03-29
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 188/24 and this msg
  2. NAVAREA XII 188/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-03-24
    Hazardous operations 290530Z to 291100Z mar, alternate 0530Z to 1100Z daily 30 and 31 mar in area bound by…
  3. NAVAREA XII 89/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-02-20
    Hazardous operations 221800Z to 222200Z feb, alternate 231800Z to 232200Z feb in area bound by 33-49.71N…
  4. NAVAREA XII 68/24 · Other2024-02-09
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 53/24 and this msg, operations completed
  5. NAVAREA XII 53/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-02-04
    Hazardous operations 081830Z to 090001Z feb, alternate 091830Z to 100001Z and 101830Z to 110001Z feb in area…
  6. NAVAREA XII 748/23 · Other2023-10-25
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 735/23 and this msg, operations complete
  7. NAVAREA XII 735/23 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2023-10-20
    Hazardous operations 251930Z to 260100Z oct, alternate 1930Z to 0100Z daily 26 thru 28 oct in area bound by…
  8. NAVAREA XII 170/23 · Other2023-03-31
    Cancel NAVAREA XII 145/23 and this msg, operations completed

Earliest in the archive

  1. NAVAREA XII 172/02 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2002-06-09
    Hazardous operations 140100Z to 140600Z jun, alternate 150100Z to 150600Z, 160100Z to 160600Z and 170100Z 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.