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Solar flares in August 1994
C-class45
M-class8
X-class0
LargestM3.91994-08-14
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | 21 | 1 | 0 | M1.5 |
| August 1994 | 45 | 8 | 0 | M3.9 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994-08-14 | 17:34 | 17:36 | 76 | M3.9 | S12W08 | 7765 |
| 1994-08-19 | 02:46 | 02:57 | 22 | M1.6 | S09W67 | 7765 |
| 1994-08-17 | 01:07 | 01:08 | 46 | M1.5 | S15W35 | 7765 |
| 1994-08-30 | 10:36 | 10:36 | 12 | M1.4 | S08E83 | 7773 |
| 1994-08-18 | 15:01 | 15:11 | 12 | M1.3 | – | – |
| 1994-08-15 | 12:42 | 12:48 | 60 | M1.2 | S12W18 | 7765 |
| 1994-08-18 | 03:02 | 03:04 | 8 | M1.1 | S08W53 | 7765 |
| 1994-08-30 | 08:23 | 08:25 | 16 | M1.1 | S06E82 | 7773 |
| 1994-08-29 | 12:29 | 12:47 | 26 | C7.0 | – | – |
| 1994-08-30 | 19:28 | 19:33 | 17 | C6.2 | S09E83 | 7773 |
| 1994-08-29 | 17:07 | 17:45 | 48 | C5.3 | – | – |
| 1994-08-29 | 22:10 | 23:03 | 76 | C5.3 | – | – |
| 1994-08-31 | 01:04 | 01:06 | 13 | C5.1 | S13E75 | 7773 |
| 1994-08-31 | 01:25 | 01:30 | 8 | C4.7 | – | – |
| 1994-08-13 | 17:23 | 17:50 | 52 | C4.0 | S12E07 | 7765 |
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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53 flares of class C or larger in August 1994; by M/X count it ranks 267 of 565 months.