Gunnery exercises 161800Z to 162200Z apr within 20 miles of 14-00N 064-30W
Caribbean Sea · NAVAREA IV 103/99
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-04-16 00:00Z
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). Issued 1999-04-12 08:05Z. 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
- Caribbean Sea. The parsed report position is 14.000, -64.500 with a 20.0 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 Caribbean Sea →
Activity windows · 1 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-04-16 18:00Z | 1999-04-16 22:00Z | — | 4 h |
Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.
- issued
- 1999-04-12 08:05Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 1999-04-16 23:00Z
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- sea
- Caribbean Sea
- position
- 14.000, -64.500 · r 20.0 nm
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 161800Z TO 162200Z APR WITHIN 20 MILES OF 14-00N 064-30W. 2. CANCEL THIS MSG 162300Z APR.
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
102 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 1 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.
- Hazardous operations in progress until further notice in areas bound by: a. 10-59.88N 064-17.05W, 11-11.68N…2025-03-25
- Hazardous operations in progress until further notice in area bound by 13-05.00N 066-43.00W, 10-59.10N…2023-09-22
- Hazardous operations 301400Z to 301600Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-34.99N 061-47.36W2023-08-30
- Gunnery exercises 301200Z to 301600Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-35.00N 061-47.36W2023-08-28
- Gunnery exercises 311600Z to 312000Z aug in area within 12 miles of 14-35.00N 061-47.36W2023-08-27
- Gunnery exercise 021200Z to 021700Z jul in area within 12 miles of 14-35.00N 061-47.36W2023-06-29
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 19:48Z; 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.