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Solar flares in June 2002
C-class75
M-class4
X-class0
LargestM1.62002-06-23
Sunspot number146.0NOAA SWPC
Flares per day (C and above)
M/X flares per day
Same month a year earlier
| Month | C | M | X | Largest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | 211 | 13 | 1 | X1.2 |
| June 2002 | 75 | 4 | 0 | M1.6 |
Top 15 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-06-23 | 02:15 | 02:55 | 69 | M1.6 | N13W70 | 9997 |
| 2002-06-01 | 03:50 | 03:57 | 11 | M1.5 | S19E29 | 9973 |
| 2002-06-01 | 10:44 | 10:49 | 8 | M1.1 | S32E71 | 9979 |
| 2002-06-02 | 20:33 | 20:44 | 25 | M1.1 | S30E50 | 9979 |
| 2002-06-02 | 11:41 | 11:47 | 9 | C9.4 | S20E09 | 9973 |
| 2002-06-02 | 10:02 | 10:15 | 31 | C8.0 | S20W61 | 9977 |
| 2002-06-19 | 10:01 | 10:15 | 23 | C5.5 | – | – |
| 2002-06-01 | 23:45 | 23:49 | 7 | C5.1 | S20E17 | 9973 |
| 2002-06-01 | 06:29 | 06:41 | 18 | C4.8 | S32E75 | 9979 |
| 2002-06-03 | 07:21 | 07:26 | 7 | C4.4 | N20E01 | 9974 |
| 2002-06-02 | 04:31 | 04:37 | 14 | C4.1 | S20W58 | 9977 |
| 2002-06-03 | 14:41 | 14:44 | 5 | C3.7 | S19W81 | 9977 |
| 2002-06-02 | 00:10 | 00:50 | 105 | C3.5 | – | – |
| 2002-06-05 | 09:26 | 09:45 | 57 | C3.4 | – | – |
| 2002-06-02 | 16:54 | 16:57 | 7 | C3.3 | S19E06 | 9973 |
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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79 flares of class C or larger in June 2002; by M/X count it ranks 327 of 565 months.