Gunnery exercises 260600Z to 260900Z sep within ten miles of 42-17N 017-05E
Adriatic Sea · HYDROLANT 3252/00
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2000-09-26 10:00Z
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) · USS BRISCOE OP #092601 161225Z SEP 00. Issued 2000-09-21 07:40Z. 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 42.283, 17.083 with a 10.0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000-09-26 06:00Z | 2000-09-26 09:00Z | — | 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
- 2000-09-21 07:40Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2000-09-26 10:00Z
- authority
- USS BRISCOE OP #092601 161225Z SEP 00
- issued by
- USS BRISCOE OP
- sea
- Adriatic Sea
- position
- 42.283, 17.083 · r 10.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 260600Z TO 260900Z SEP WITHIN TEN MILES OF 42-17N 017-05E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 261000Z SEP.
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
276 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
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 13:48Z; 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.