Gunnery exercises 131100Z to 131500Z apr within ten miles of: a. 19-47N 070-22W
North Atlantic Ocean · NAVAREA IV 99/99
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 1999-04-14 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 1999-04-08 07:40Z. 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
- North Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is 19.833, -70.750. 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 North Atlantic Ocean →
Activity windows · 2 in this warning
| opens (UTC) | closes (UTC) | local | length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-04-13 11:00Z | 1999-04-13 15:00Z | — | 4 h |
| 1999-04-14 00:30Z | 1999-04-14 01:30Z | — | 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
- 1999-04-08 07:40Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 1999-04-14 02:30Z
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA IV
- sea
- North Atlantic Ocean
- position
- 19.833, -70.750
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
1. GUNNERY EXERCISES 131100Z TO 131500Z APR WITHIN TEN MILES OF: A. 19-47N 070-22W. B. 19-56N 071-09W. 2. PYROTECHNIC EXERCISES 140030Z TO 140130Z APR WITHIN 15 MILES OF 19-50N 070-45W. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 140230Z 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
6 within 180 nm since 1999 · 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.
- Hazardous operations 30 nov thru 31 jan 22 in area bound by 18-01-32N 069-19-58W, 18-01-30N 070-00-37W,…2021-11-29
- Hazardous operations 101900Z to 102130Z jan in 20-30N 073-17W2005-01-10
- Hazardous operations 221730Z to 221930Z aug within 20 miles of 21-10N 072-40W2003-08-21
- Hazardous operations 131700Z to 131930Z sep within ten miles of 21-00N 072-30W2002-09-13
- Gunnery exercises 130630Z to 131100Z apr in areas bound by: a. 19-27N 069-47W, 19-38N 069-52W, 19-30N…1999-04-08
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
- Puerto plata light 19-48.2N 070-41.7W unlitNav aids · 3.6 nm
- Due to hurricane erin, lateral buoys removed: a. buoy 1 19-10.61N 069-16.51WNav aids · 95.9 nm
- Punta torrecilla light 18-27.86N 069-52.58W unlitNav aids · 96 nm
Worldwide in the collected sources
9 military exercises listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-04 05:36Z; 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.