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Pyrotechnics exercises 052200Z to 060100Z jul in 56-36N 166-17W

Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 204/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-07-06 02:00Z

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) · COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 120/16 052007Z JUL 16.. Issued 2016-07-05 20:35Z. 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
Bering Sea. The parsed report position is 56.600, -166.283. 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
2016-07-05 22:00Z2016-07-06 01:00Z—3 h

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

issued
2016-07-05 20:35Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2016-07-06 02:00Z
authority
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 120/16 052007Z JUL 16.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
issued by
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
sea
Bering Sea
position
56.600, -166.283
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

BERING SEA.
1. PYROTECHNICS EXERCISES 052200Z TO 060100Z JUL
   IN 56-36N 166-17W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA XII 202/16.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 060200Z JUL 16.

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.
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.
NAVAREA
One of the 21 ocean areas of the World-Wide Navigational Warning Service, each with a coordinator that broadcasts long-range warnings.
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

36 within 180 nm since 2007 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

21 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 22:12Z; source collection times vary.

Other

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

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