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Solar flares in July 1998
C-class68
M-class3
X-class0
LargestM4.61998-07-14
Sunspot number98.3NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1997 | 3 | 0 | 0 | C1.2 |
| July 1998 | 68 | 3 | 0 | M4.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-07-14 | 12:51 | 12:59 | 12 | M4.6 | S23E20 | – |
| 1998-07-03 | 00:06 | 01:12 | 81 | M1.2 | – | – |
| 1998-07-04 | 12:00 | 12:16 | 33 | M1.2 | S23W44 | – |
| 1998-07-04 | 16:32 | 16:43 | 21 | C9.7 | S23W46 | 8256 |
| 1998-07-04 | 05:37 | 05:45 | 16 | C9.4 | S24W40 | – |
| 1998-07-24 | 03:11 | 03:38 | 47 | C8.2 | S26E57 | 8280 |
| 1998-07-05 | 11:29 | 11:44 | 33 | C7.3 | N16E24 | – |
| 1998-07-01 | 18:35 | 18:40 | 12 | C6.8 | N15W45 | 8253 |
| 1998-07-15 | 19:46 | 19:53 | 11 | C6.8 | S20E03 | – |
| 1998-07-16 | 00:15 | 00:23 | 12 | C6.5 | S20W01 | 8270 |
| 1998-07-22 | 04:39 | 05:03 | 47 | C6.5 | – | – |
| 1998-07-04 | 10:00 | 10:10 | 23 | C5.8 | S23W43 | 8256 |
| 1998-07-15 | 10:31 | 10:46 | 21 | C5.7 | S31E65 | – |
| 1998-07-04 | 14:40 | 14:53 | 30 | C5.5 | S23W45 | 8256 |
| 1998-07-16 | 20:21 | 20:33 | 24 | C5.0 | S21W10 | 8270 |
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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71 flares of class C or larger in July 1998; by M/X count it ranks 354 of 565 months.