Missle exercises 070400Z to 081600Z jan in area bound by 31-19.110N 030-03.023E, 31-11.750N 028-49.000E,…
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin · HYDROLANT 50/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-01-08 17:00Z
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) · NAVAREA III 13/20 062132Z JAN 20.. Issued 2020-01-07 00:22Z. 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 map shows an area described by the warning; the listed coordinate is its representative center. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Current notices and reporting history in the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-07 04:00Z | 2020-01-08 16:00Z | — | 36 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2020-01-07 00:22Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2020-01-08 17:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA III 13/20 062132Z JAN 20.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA III · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin
- position
- 31.636, 29.397
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA. EGYPT. DNC 10. 1. MISSLE EXERCISES 070400Z TO 081600Z JAN IN AREA BOUND BY 31-19.110N 030-03.023E, 31-11.750N 028-49.000E, 31-51.500N 028-58.000E, 32-17.000N 029-32.500E. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 081700Z JAN 20.
Reading this warning
- DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
- A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
- 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.
- Area bound by
- Introduces a list of positions that are the corners of an area — the polygon the warning applies to.
- 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 · other warnings
45 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- M/V sc phoenix on fire in vicinity 33-00N 031-00E2022-03-25
- F/V irini requesting assistance in 33-12N 026-39E2014-02-24
- Pipelaying operations in progress until 21 dec in area bound by 32-01.3N 030-13.2E, 32-02.3N 030-19.2E,…2013-11-29
- Geophysical operations in progress until 24 oct by M/V le suroit in area bound by 33-30N 030-00E, 32-17N…2011-09-19
- Pipelaying operations in progress until 28 nov by M/V high land navigator, M/V high land fortress, M/V…2010-11-09
- Pipelaying operations in progress until 15 oct by M/V high land navigator in area bound by 31-22.15N…2010-09-11
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
23 other warnings listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:01Z; source collection times vary.
Other
Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →
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.