Exercises

Gunnery exercises: a. 040500Z to 040800Z may within 20 miles of 39-39N 014-31E

Tyrrhenian Sea · HYDROLANT 1564/00

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2000-05-07 14:30Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · USS LA SALLE OP #050401 290501Z APR 00; OP #050702 010845Z MAY 00. Issued 2000-05-03 09:10Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Tyrrhenian Sea. The map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Related notices and cancellation links

Current notices and reporting history in the Tyrrhenian Sea →

Activity windows · 2 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2000-05-04 05:00Z2000-05-04 08:00Z—3 h
2000-05-07 10:30Z2000-05-07 13:30Z—3 h

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2000-05-03 09:10Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2000-05-07 14:30Z
authority
USS LA SALLE OP #050401 290501Z APR 00; OP #050702 010845Z MAY 00
issued by
USS LA SALLE OP
sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
position
40.404, 12.133
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. GUNNERY EXERCISES:
   A. 040500Z TO 040800Z MAY WITHIN 20 MILES OF 39-39N 014-31E.
   B. 071030Z TO 071330Z MAY WITHIN 20 MILES OF 40-23N 012-08E.
2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1521/00.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 071430Z MAY.

Reading this warning

Gunnery and live firing
Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.
Within a radius of
A circular area — every position within a stated distance of a point.
Position (degrees and minutes)
How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROLANT
The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

199 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

9 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 15:55Z; source collection times vary.

Exercises

Gunnery, firing and naval exercise areas. All current military exercises →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.