Gunnery and pyrotechnic operations 261600Z to 270600Z jun in area within 11 miles of 55-50.00N 169-00.00W
Bering Sea · NAVAREA XII 373/23
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2023-06-27 07:00Z
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 107/23 210502Z JUN 23.. Issued 2023-06-21 05:12Z. 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 55.833, -169.000 with a 11.0 nm radius. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-26 16:00Z | 2023-06-27 06:00Z | — | 14 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 2023-06-21 05:12Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2023-06-27 07:00Z
- authority
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE 107/23 210502Z JUN 23.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XII
- issued by
- COMCOGARD SECTOR ANCHORAGE
- sea
- Bering Sea
- position
- 55.833, -169.000 · r 11.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BERING SEA. ALASKA. 1. GUNNERY AND PYROTECHNIC OPERATIONS 261600Z TO 270600Z JUN IN AREA WITHIN 11 MILES OF 55-50.00N 169-00.00W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 270700Z JUN 23.
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.
Collected reports in this area · military exercises
107 within 180 nm since 2002 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now
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.
- Gunnery exercises 090100Z to 090200Z mar in area within 11 miles of 55-29.98N 169-00.00W2024-03-08
- Gunnery exercises 052100Z to 060200Z sep in area within 23 miles of 55-44.89N 168-30.00W2023-09-04
- Gunnery exercises 1600Z to 0001Z daily 29 and 30 jul in area within ten miles of 55-41.98N 169-25.00W2023-07-28
- Gunnery exercises 021600Z to 030600Z jun in area within 15 miles of 55-50.0N 169-00.0W2023-05-31
- Gunnery exercises 051800Z to 052359Z nov in area within five miles of 55-29.99N 171-30.00W2022-11-03
- Alaska 1. gunnery operations 152100Z to 152230Z aug in area within 15 miles of 55-45.00N 168-30.00W2022-08-14
Month of issue in the collected archive
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
28 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 06:20Z; 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.