Gunnery exercises 081030Z to 081230Z aug within 20 miles of 35-19N 028-09E
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 2727/00
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2000-08-05 00:31Z
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 BRISCOE 041520Z AUG 00. Issued 2000-08-04 20:43Z. 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
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin. The parsed report position is 35.317, 28.150 with a 20.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- Gunnery exercises 081030Z to 081230Z aug within 20 miles of 41-38N 018-18Ecancelled by this notice
- Gunnery exercises 081030Z to 081230Z aug within 20 miles of 41-38N 018-18Elater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-08-08 10:30Z | 2000-08-08 12:30Z | — | 2 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2000-08-04 20:43Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2000-08-08 13:30Z
- authority
- USS BRISCOE 041520Z AUG 00
- issued by
- USS BRISCOE
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
- position
- 35.317, 28.150 · r 20.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 081030Z TO 081230Z AUG WITHIN 20 MILES OF 35-19N 028-09E. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2706/00. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 081330Z AUG.
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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
698 within 180 nm since 1998 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
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.
- Hazardous operations sunrise to sunset 01 jan thru 14 jun and 16 sep thru 31 dec 24 in area bound by…2024-01-04
- Hazardous operations sunrise to sunset 01 jan thru 14 jun and 16 sep thru 31 dec in area bound by 37-27.00N…2023-01-04
- Hazardous operations 140900Z to 141800Z may in area bound by 35-42.00N 029-40.00E, 35-42.00N 028-34.00E,…2022-05-12
- Hazardous operations 150500Z to 252000Z feb in areas bound by: a. 34-10N 025-56E, 34-10N 026-30E, 33-44N…2022-02-13
- Hazardous operations 060130Z to 061200Z, 070100Z to 071030Z jan, 0230Z to 1130Z daily 10 thru 14 jan and…2022-01-06
- Gunnery exercises 030600Z to 031200Z jan in area bound by 33-30N 025-10E, 32-50N 025-10E, 32-50N 027-00E,…2021-12-29
Month of issue in the collected archive
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 15:15Z; 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.