Exercises

Gunnery exercises 300100Z to 300400Z sep within five miles of 58-47.0N 151-09.1W

Gulf of Alaska · NAVAREA XII 342/14

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2014-09-30 05:00Z

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 197/14 262133Z SEP 14.. Issued 2014-09-26 23:05Z. 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
Gulf of Alaska. The parsed report position is 58.783, -151.152 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 Gulf of Alaska →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2014-09-30 01:00Z2014-09-30 04:00Z—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
2014-09-26 23:05Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2014-09-30 05:00Z
authority
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 197/14 262133Z SEP 14.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XII
issued by
COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
sea
Gulf of Alaska
position
58.783, -151.152 · r 5.0 nm
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
GULF OF ALASKA.
GUNNERY.
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 300100Z TO 300400Z SEP
   WITHIN FIVE MILES OF 58-47.0N 151-09.1W.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 300500Z SEP 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

13 within 180 nm since 2010 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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20

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

Worldwide in the collected sources

28 military exercises listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 14:08Z; 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.