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Pyrotechnics exercises 191630Z to 191900Z sep within five miles of 54-48.8N 166-57.8W

Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 340/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-09-19 20:00Z

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 170/16 190340Z SEP 16.. Issued 2016-09-19 09:29Z. 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 54.813, -166.963 with a 5.0 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 Bering Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2016-09-19 16:30Z2016-09-19 19:00Z—2 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
2016-09-19 09:29Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2016-09-19 20:00Z
authority
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 170/16 190340Z SEP 16.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
issued by
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
sea
Bering Sea
position
54.813, -166.963 · r 5.0 nm
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 191630Z TO 191900Z SEP
   WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 54-48.8N 166-57.8W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 192000Z SEP 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.
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.

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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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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

23 other warnings listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 10:24Z; source collection times vary.

Other

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

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