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Solar flares in February 2001
C-class61
M-class1
X-class0
LargestM2.42001-02-02
Sunspot number131.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2000 | 171 | 14 | 1 | X1.2 |
| February 2001 | 61 | 1 | 0 | M2.4 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-02-02 | 23:48 | 00:06 | 32 | M2.4 | N09E72 | 9334 |
| 2001-02-05 | 15:05 | 15:20 | 30 | C8.2 | N07E38 | 9335 |
| 2001-02-01 | 07:07 | 07:12 | 8 | C7.9 | N28E55 | 9330 |
| 2001-02-11 | 00:57 | 01:23 | 49 | C6.5 | N24W57 | 9346 |
| 2001-02-21 | 14:11 | 14:27 | 29 | C6.2 | S08W29 | 9354 |
| 2001-02-12 | 01:12 | 01:18 | 9 | C5.9 | – | 9338 |
| 2001-02-19 | 20:43 | 21:00 | 38 | C5.4 | – | – |
| 2001-02-12 | 20:21 | 20:37 | 32 | C4.2 | N12W60 | 9334 |
| 2001-02-01 | 17:07 | 17:12 | 10 | C4.1 | N28E51 | 9330 |
| 2001-02-09 | 21:40 | 21:50 | 15 | C3.5 | S21E01 | 9338 |
| 2001-02-02 | 19:09 | 20:37 | 178 | C3.3 | – | – |
| 2001-02-09 | 22:57 | 23:21 | 48 | C3.1 | S19W01 | 9338 |
| 2001-02-20 | 01:10 | 01:22 | 19 | C3.1 | – | – |
| 2001-02-21 | 08:07 | 08:20 | 21 | C3.0 | – | – |
| 2001-02-01 | 12:55 | 13:00 | 9 | C2.6 | N26E53 | 9330 |
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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62 flares of class C or larger in February 2001; by M/X count it ranks 425 of 565 months.