Gunnery exercises 080900Z to 081900Z nov within eight miles of 40-23.5N 019-22E
Adriatic Sea · HYDROLANT 2840/01
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2001-11-08 20:00Z
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) · CTF 61 030920Z NOV 01. Issued 2001-11-03 18:45Z. 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
- Adriatic Sea. The parsed report position is 40.392, 19.367 with a 8.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-11-08 09:00Z | 2001-11-08 19:00Z | — | 10 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2001-11-03 18:45Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2001-11-08 20:00Z
- authority
- CTF 61 030920Z NOV 01
- issued by
- CTF
- sea
- Adriatic Sea
- position
- 40.392, 19.367 · r 8.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 080900Z TO 081900Z NOV WITHIN EIGHT MILES OF 40-23.5N 019-22E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 082000Z NOV.
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.
- 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
319 within 180 nm since 1996 · 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 080700Z to 082100Z mar in area bound by 41-32.00N 018-31.00E, 41-27.00N 018-23.00E,…2023-03-04
- Hazardous operations 0700Z to 2100Z daily 11 thru 13 and 17 thru 19 feb in area bound by 41-32.00N…2023-02-07
- Hazardous operations 0700Z to 2100Z daily 11 thru 13 jan in area bound by 41-32.00N 018-31.00E, 41-27.00N…2023-01-07
- Hazardous operations 0700Z to 2100Z daily 13 and 14 dec in area bound by 41-32.00N 018-31.00E, 41-27.00N…2022-12-08
- Hazardous operations 250700Z to 252100Z nov in area bound by 41-32.00N 018-31.00E, 41-27.00N 018-23.00E,…2022-11-07
- Hazardous operations 100700Z to 112100Z nov in area bound by 41-32.00N 018-31.00E, 41-27.00N 018-23.00E,…2022-11-07
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
10 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 11:00Z; 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.