:Product: 20020618SRS.txt
:Issued: 2002 Jun 18 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 169 Issued at 0030Z on 18 Jun 2002
Report compiled from data received at SWO on 17 Jun
I.  Regions with Sunspots.  Locations Valid at 17/2400Z
Nmbr Location  Lo  Area  Z   LL   NN Mag Type
9991 S22W61   083  0330 Cko  04   02 Beta
9992 S18W45   067  0010 Bxo  03   03 Beta
9997 N10E05   017  0010 Bxo  04   03 Beta
0000 N18E12   010  0030 Cso  07   09 Beta
0001 N20E33   349  0190 Dso  09   08 Beta
0003 S02E35   347  0000 Axx  00   01 Alpha
0004 S15W20   042  0020 Cso  07   09 Beta
0005 N13E62   320  0120 Hsx  02   01 Alpha
IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots.  Locations Valid at 17/2400Z Jun
Nmbr  Location  Lo
9994  N10W45   069
9995  N12W93   116
9996  S26W16   039
0002  S24W34   057
II. Regions Due to Return 18 Jun to 20 Jun
Nmbr Lat    Lo
9970 N06    262
9977 S20    287

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 region numbers 10000 and higher.