What was in force there, then?

A position, a moment in UTC and a radius. The answer is what this archive holds for that moment, with when each message was collected, and a statement of what was being collected at all.

What you get

in forceevery warning we hold that was issued before and cancelled after the moment, whose area or position lies within the radius
collectedwhen this archive first and last saw the message, and how its cancellation is known (explicit, self-cancel, dropped from the in-force list, archive)
coveragefor the series that report this sea: archive, Wayback capture, live collection or nothing at that moment — so an empty answer is never mistaken for a quiet sea

Not for navigation, and not a legal record: a statement about what this archive holds. Official broadcasts are authoritative.