Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1983
C1948
M106
X6
LargestX4.11983-02-03
M/X flares by month
- January 1983
- February 1983
- March 1983
- April 1983
- May 1983
- June 1983
- July 1983
- August 1983
- September 1983
- October 1983
- November 1983
- December 1983
Nearby years (M + X)
195
309
406
520
596
112
121
16
22
30
206
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-02-03 | 05:43 | 06:19 | 179 | X4.1 | S19W08 | 4077 |
| 1983-05-07 | 22:16 | 22:16 | 49 | X3.1 | S30E67 | 4171 |
| 1983-05-09 | 23:02 | 23:07 | 65 | X2.4 | S29E39 | 4171 |
| 1983-05-15 | 08:40 | 08:45 | 58 | X2.3 | S10W78 | 4173 |
| 1983-06-06 | 13:31 | 13:51 | 121 | X1.4 | S11W15 | 4201 |
| 1983-05-08 | 02:24 | 03:17 | 409 | X1.3 | S31E62 | 4171 |
| 1983-08-01 | 02:56 | 03:29 | 131 | M8.5 | S08E34 | 4263 |
| 1983-06-26 | 14:07 | 14:12 | 65 | M7.0 | S13E76 | 4227 |
| 1983-04-18 | 01:22 | 01:48 | 66 | M6.7 | S11E90 | 4150 |
| 1983-05-12 | 02:37 | 02:56 | 69 | M5.6 | S30E15 | 4171 |
| 1983-06-16 | 15:13 | 16:24 | 140 | M5.6 | S13E46 | 4213 |
| 1983-06-26 | 04:36 | 04:53 | 27 | M5.5 | S12E90 | 4227 |
| 1983-08-13 | 18:00 | 18:13 | 80 | M5.5 | S08E00 | 4278 |
| 1983-03-17 | 20:11 | 20:13 | 5 | M5.2 | S08E42 | 4116 |
| 1983-03-17 | 09:28 | 09:31 | 6 | M4.8 | – | 4116 |
| 1983-10-19 | 19:57 | 20:16 | 51 | M4.8 | – | 4335 |
| 1983-02-22 | 19:20 | 19:36 | 35 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 1983-06-25 | 20:51 | 20:52 | 27 | M4.0 | S07E89 | 4227 |
| 1983-08-04 | 03:32 | 03:42 | 36 | M3.5 | S07W24 | 4263 |
| 1983-05-10 | 11:06 | 12:11 | 154 | M3.1 | S13W16 | 4173 |
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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2,060 flares of class C+ in 1983: 106 M-class and 6 X-class.