:Product: 20020613SRS.txt
:Issued: 2002 Jun 13 0030 UTC
# Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA,
# Space Environment Center and the U.S. Air Force.
#
Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary
SRS Number 164 Issued at 0030Z on 13 Jun 2002
Report compiled from data received at SWO on 12 Jun
I.  Regions with Sunspots.  Locations Valid at 12/2400Z
Nmbr Location  Lo  Area  Z   LL   NN Mag Type
9985 N18W78   166  0130 Hsx  02   01 Alpha
9987 S15W56   144  0370 Eko  11   16 Beta-Gamma
9991 S22E04   084  0340 Dho  06   10 Beta
9992 S20E21   068  0040 Cso  03   07 Beta
9993 N06W59   148  0020 Axx  01   01 Alpha
9995 N10W27   116  0010 Bxo  03   05 Beta
9996 S27E46   042  0010 Axx  01   02 Alpha
9997 N08E73   015  0010 Axx  01   01 Alpha
9998 N15E74   014  0010 Axx  01   01 Alpha
IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots.  Locations Valid at 12/2400Z Jun
Nmbr  Location  Lo
9981  S20W65   153
9983  N25W62   152
9986  N03W32   121
9989  S35W96   186
9990  S23W47   136
9994  N10E20   069
II. Regions Due to Return 13 Jun to 15 Jun
Nmbr Lat    Lo
9960 N14    343
9961 S21    333
9963 N17    318
9962 N16    335
PLAIN
This message is for users of the NOAA/SEC Space
Weather Operations sunspot region numbers. As you
may have noticed, we are steadily approaching
region number 10000. The plan for Space Weather
operations is to go 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 regions numbers 10000 and higher.