:Product: 20020622SRS.txt
:Issued: 2002 Jun 22 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 173 Issued at 0030Z on 22 Jun 2002
Report compiled from data received at SWO on 21 Jun
I.  Regions with Sunspots.  Locations Valid at 21/2400Z
Nmbr Location  Lo  Area  Z   LL   NN Mag Type
0001 N21W22   352  0190 Cao  05   07 Beta
0004 S16W72   042  0010 Bxo  04   04 Beta
0005 N13E11   319  0170 Cao  05   06 Beta
0006 S07W60   030  0020 Cro  04   05 Beta
0007 N14W24   354  0010 Axx  00   01 Alpha
0008 S08E39   291  0530 Dko  08   18 Beta-Gamma
0009 S18W79   049  0010 Bxo  02   02 Beta
IA. H-alpha Plages without Spots.  Locations Valid at 21/2400Z Jun
Nmbr  Location  Lo
9996  S26W68   039
9997  N17W46   016
0000  N18E43   013
0002  S24W86   057
0003  S01W19   349
II. Regions Due to Return 22 Jun to 24 Jun
Nmbr Lat    Lo
9973 S15    211
9975 N22    213

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.