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Bombing exercises 182000Z to 240800Z feb within ten miles of: a. 15-00N 147-00E

North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 291/03

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2003-02-24 09:00Z

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) · CTU 70.6.3 161507Z FEB 03; AUSSAR POR EGC#2775 161848Z FEB 03. Issued 2003-02-17 09:50Z. 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
North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 14.750, 146.750. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2003-02-18 20:00Z2003-02-24 08:00Z—132 h

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2003-02-17 09:50Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2003-02-24 09:00Z
authority
CTU 70.6.3 161507Z FEB 03; AUSSAR POR EGC#2775 161848Z FEB 03
issued by
CTU
sea
North Pacific Ocean
position
14.750, 146.750
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

1. BOMBING EXERCISES 182000Z TO 240800Z FEB
   WITHIN TEN MILES OF:
   A. 15-00N 147-00E.
   B. 14-30N 146-30E.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 287/03(75), VESSEL ASSISTED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 240900Z FEB.

Reading this warning

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.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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Collected reports in this area · other warnings

86 within 180 nm since 2000 · 3 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 16:07Z; 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.