:Product: 20020626GEOA.txt :Issued: 2002 Jun 26 0330 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Geoalert WWA177 UGEOA 20401 20626 0330/ 9935/ 11261 20261 30261 99999 UGEOE 20401 20626 0330/ 25/03 05432 0544/ 05442 9//99 01002 0//// ///// 9//// 06102 0610/ 06112 9//99 01902 0//// ///// 9//// 17092 1709/ 17102 9//99 02402 0//// ///// 9//// 99999 UGEOI 20401 20626 0330/ 25/// 10127 21450 30110 4///0 50000 63207 71204 80108 90950 99999 UGEOR 20401 20626 0330/ 25/24 26108 10001 20000 30000 47201 50100 60002 47520 00000 10005 20000 30000 44212 50100 60006 44411 03000 10008 20000 30100 44523 50540 60016 31511 16200 10011 20000 30000 44312 50120 60014 22312 03000 10012 20000 30000 41001 50000 60001 40921 00000 10013 20000 30000 42012 50010 60002 42004 00000 10015 20000 30000 43212 50030 60005 22627 01000 10016 20000 30000 47201 50050 60001 27115 02000 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 ISES 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.