Hazardous operations
Eastern Baltic Sea · Lithuania · HYDROLANT 1894/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-08-24 22:00Z
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) · LITHUANIA 54/12 171005Z AUG 12 - WZ 1074/12 171320Z AUG 12.. Issued 2012-08-17 13:55Z. 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
- Eastern Baltic Sea · Lithuania. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Cancel HYDROLANT 1888/12(36)cancelled by this notice
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-22 05:00Z | 2012-08-24 21:00Z | — | 64 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2012-08-17 13:55Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-08-24 22:00Z
- authority
- LITHUANIA 54/12 171005Z AUG 12 - WZ 1074/12 171320Z AUG 12.
- issued by
- LITHUANIA
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN BALTIC SEA. LITHUANIA. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS. 1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS 220500Z TO 242100Z AUG IN AREA BETWEEN 55-42.5N 55-36.0N AND 020-45.0E 020-35.0E. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 1893/12(37), AID RESTORED. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 242200Z AUG 12.
Reading this warning
- Hazardous operations
- NGA's heading for activities that make an area dangerous — most often rocket launches, space debris and weapons firings, and some open-ended danger areas.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No parsed position is available for this comparison.
Worldwide in the collected sources
32 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-09-28 08:56Z; 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.