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Solar flares in June 1989
C-class174
M-class90
X-class6
LargestX4.11989-06-15
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1988 | 152 | 23 | 4 | X5.6 |
| June 1989 | 174 | 90 | 6 | X4.1 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-06-15 | 18:13 | 19:14 | 148 | X4.1 | S21E08 | 5533 |
| 1989-06-16 | 04:19 | – | 26 | X3.0 | S17E03 | 5533 |
| 1989-06-20 | 14:48 | 15:08 | 152 | X1.6 | – | – |
| 1989-06-02 | 15:57 | 16:07 | 60 | X1.3 | S24E59 | 5517 |
| 1989-06-03 | 18:29 | 18:44 | 71 | X1.0 | S22E77 | 5521 |
| 1989-06-05 | 19:26 | 21:36 | 229 | X1.0 | S21E52 | 5521 |
| 1989-06-20 | 22:01 | 22:08 | 74 | M9.3 | N18W81 | 5528 |
| 1989-06-17 | 15:49 | 16:16 | 121 | M8.7 | N16W40 | 5528 |
| 1989-06-16 | 05:05 | 05:22 | 17 | M6.8 | S16E04 | 5533 |
| 1989-06-09 | 22:52 | 22:55 | 6 | M6.3 | S20E90 | 5533 |
| 1989-06-04 | 21:16 | 21:29 | 69 | M6.0 | S23E67 | 5521 |
| 1989-06-10 | 06:14 | 06:20 | 21 | M5.0 | S18E90 | 5533 |
| 1989-06-16 | 18:40 | 19:03 | 102 | M4.9 | S21W02 | 5533 |
| 1989-06-04 | 08:51 | 09:00 | 62 | M3.7 | – | – |
| 1989-06-29 | 21:08 | 21:18 | 162 | M3.7 | N28W44 | 5555 |
All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.
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270 flares of class C or larger in June 1989; by M/X count it ranks 9 of 565 months.