:Product: 20020622GEOA.txt
:Issued: 2002 Jun 22 0330 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Geoalert WWA173
UGEOA 20401 20622 0330/ 9/35/
11221 20221 30221
99999
UGEOE 20401 20622 0330/ 21/01
22132 2213/ 22132 9//99 01002 0//// ///// 9////
99999
UGEOI 20401 20622 0330/ 21///
10113 21400 30070 4///0 50000 64407 71104 80007 90940
99999
UGEOR 20401 20622 0330/ 21/24 22107
10001 20000 30000 43312 50190 60007 42221 01000
10004 20000 30000 42012 50010 60004 37216 00000
10005 20000 30000 43312 50170 60006 11113 01000
10006 20000 30000 43112 50020 60005 36007 01000
10007 20000 30000 41001 50010 60001 42414 00000
10008 20000 30000 44513 50530 60018 23908 15200
10009 20000 30000 42012 50010 60002 37918 00000
99999
PLAIN
This message is for users of the NOAA/SEC Space
Weather Operations sunspot region numbers. As you
may have noticed, region number 10000 was assigned
on June 14. Space Weather operations is going
through the sequence of Region numbers as 9998,
9999, 0000, 0001, and so on. SEC's product text
discussions of the active regions will ignore the
leading zeroes (for example, we will say 'Region
number 5' rather than Region number '0005'). However,
the Geoalert product, the Region Report product, as
well as the USAF and IUWDS data exchange codes will
preserve the 4 digit format. The necessity of using
four digits is for operational purposes only. For
historical purposes all regions beyond Region 9999
will be understood to be in a series of region numbers
10000 and higher.