Exercises

Gunnery exercises: a. 221900Z to 222100Z jun within 30 miles of 26-40N 143-40W

North Pacific Ocean · NAVAREA XII 194/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-06-24 01:01Z

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) · JAMES BARFOOT XII REQ 2 182035Z JUN 14.. Issued 2014-06-18 21:13Z. 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 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 North Pacific Ocean →

Activity windows · 2 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2014-06-22 19:00Z2014-06-22 21:00Z—2 h
2014-06-23 22:00Z2014-06-24 00:01Z—2 h 01

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

issued
2014-06-18 21:13Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2014-06-24 01:01Z
authority
JAMES BARFOOT XII REQ 2 182035Z JUN 14.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
issued by
JAMES BARFOOT XII REQ
sea
North Pacific Ocean
position
26.698, -143.667
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
GUNNERY.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES:
   A. 221900Z TO 222100Z JUN WITHIN 30 MILES OF
      26-40N 143-40W.
   B. 232200Z TO 240001Z JUN WITHIN 30 MILES OF
      24-32N 149-52W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 240101Z JUN 14.

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.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · military exercises

6 within 180 nm since 2014 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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20
23

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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M
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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

17 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-25 15:17Z; 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.