Exercises
Gunnery exercises 2300Z to 0900Z commencing daily 26 feb thru 03 mar in area between 35-35N 36-00N and…
Yellow Sea · Gunnery · HYDROPAC 496/12
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2012-03-04 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) · NAVAREA XI 117/12 211147Z FEB 12 - NAVAREA XI 118/12 211147Z FEB 12.. Issued 2012-02-21 12:32Z. 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
- Yellow Sea · Gunnery. No usable coordinates were parsed; a location-based nearby search is unavailable. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
Activity windows · 7 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-02-26 23:00Z | 2012-02-27 09:00Z | — | 10 h |
| 2012-02-27 23:00Z | 2012-02-28 09:00Z | — | 10 h |
| 2012-02-28 23:00Z | 2012-02-29 09:00Z | — | 10 h |
| 2012-02-29 23:00Z | 2012-03-01 09:00Z | — | 10 h |
| 2012-03-01 23:00Z | 2012-03-02 09:00Z | — | 10 h |
| 2012-03-02 23:00Z | 2012-03-03 09:00Z | — | 10 h |
| 2012-03-03 23:00Z | 2012-03-04 09:00Z | — | 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
- 2012-02-21 12:32Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2012-03-04 10:00Z
- authority
- NAVAREA XI 117/12 211147Z FEB 12 - NAVAREA XI 118/12 211147Z FEB 12.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
YELLOW SEA. GUNNERY. 1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 2300Z TO 0900Z COMMENCING DAILY 26 FEB THRU 03 MAR IN AREA BETWEEN 35-35N 36-00N AND 125-00E 125-30E. 2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 429/12(94,95,97), OPERATIONS COMPLETED. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 041000Z MAR.
Reading this warning
- Gunnery and live firing
- Naval or coastal guns firing into a sea area for practice, at stated times.
- 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.
- 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.
Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm
No parsed position is available for this comparison.
Worldwide in the collected sources
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-03 02:03Z; 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.