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Pyrotechnics exercises 142030Z to 142130Z sep within 1000 yards of 68-30.225N 167-35.105W

Chukchi Sea · NAVAREA XII 232/13

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2013-09-14 22:30Z

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 SECTOR ANCHORAGE 240/13 132325Z SEP 13.. Issued 2013-09-14 10:30Z. 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
Chukchi Sea. The parsed report position is 68.504, -167.585 with a 0.5 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Chukchi Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2013-09-14 20:30Z2013-09-14 21:30Z—1 h

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

issued
2013-09-14 10:30Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2013-09-14 22:30Z
authority
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 240/13 132325Z SEP 13.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
issued by
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
sea
Chukchi Sea
position
68.504, -167.585 · r 0.5 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CHUKCHI SEA.
ALASKA.
1. PYROTECHNICS EXERCISES 142030Z TO 142130Z SEP
   WITHIN 1000 YARDS OF 68-30.225N 167-35.105W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 142230Z SEP 13.

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.
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

4 within 180 nm since 2009 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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15

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

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 15:03Z; source collection times vary.

Other

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

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