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Bombing exercises 302200Z apr to 010730Z may within ten miles of 16-01N 146-04E

North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 810/02

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2002-04-01 08:30Z

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) · COMCOGARD MARSEC GUAM 52/02 300342Z APR 02; NAVAREA XI 264/02 300805Z APR 02. Issued 2002-04-30 11:10Z. 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 16.017, 146.067 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.

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Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2002-04-30 22:00Z2002-05-01 07:30Z—9 h 30

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

issued
2002-04-30 11:10Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2002-05-01 08:30Z
authority
COMCOGARD MARSEC GUAM 52/02 300342Z APR 02; NAVAREA XI 264/02 300805Z APR 02
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
issued by
COMCOGARD MARSEC GUAM
sea
North Pacific Ocean
position
16.017, 146.067 · 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. BOMBING EXERCISES 302200Z APR TO 010730Z MAY WITHIN
   TEN MILES OF 16-01N 146-04E.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 772/02(71), OPERATIONS COMPLETED.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 010830Z MAY.

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

85 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.

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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

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 2026-09-30 10:33Z; source collection times vary.

Other

Everything the classifier did not place elsewhere. All current other warnings →

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