Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1989
C1929
M620
X59
LargestX20.01989-08-16
M/X flares by month
- January 1989
- February 1989
- March 1989
- April 1989
- May 1989
- June 1989
- July 1989
- August 1989
- September 1989
- October 1989
- November 1989
- December 1989
Nearby years (M + X)
121
16
22
30
206
679
289
644
212
74
25
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-08-16 | 01:08 | 01:17 | 80 | X20.0 | S18W84 | 5629 |
| 1989-03-06 | 13:54 | 14:10 | 150 | X15.0 | N35E69 | 5395 |
| 1989-10-19 | 12:29 | 12:55 | 464 | X13.0 | S27E10 | 5747 |
| 1989-09-29 | 10:47 | 11:33 | 228 | X9.8 | – | 5698 |
| 1989-03-17 | 17:29 | 17:37 | 123 | X6.5 | N33W60 | 5395 |
| 1989-10-24 | 17:36 | 18:31 | 528 | X5.7 | S30W57 | 5747 |
| 1989-03-10 | 18:48 | 19:12 | 190 | X4.5 | N31E22 | 5395 |
| 1989-06-15 | 18:13 | 19:14 | 148 | X4.1 | S21E08 | 5533 |
| 1989-03-09 | 15:15 | 15:32 | 79 | X4.0 | N30E38 | 5395 |
| 1989-11-21 | 13:32 | 13:46 | 59 | X4.0 | S26W53 | 5793 |
| 1989-02-09 | 12:56 | 13:04 | 80 | X3.9 | N22E39 | 5355 |
| 1989-03-16 | 15:24 | 15:26 | 81 | X3.6 | N36W47 | 5395 |
| 1989-04-09 | 00:44 | 00:59 | 115 | X3.5 | N35E29 | 5441 |
| 1989-08-14 | 00:31 | 00:56 | 67 | X3.5 | S16W60 | 5629 |
| 1989-11-15 | 06:38 | 07:05 | 162 | X3.2 | N11W26 | 5786 |
| 1989-06-16 | 04:19 | – | 26 | X3.0 | S17E03 | 5533 |
| 1989-08-17 | 01:32 | 01:35 | 7 | X2.9 | S19W88 | 5629 |
| 1989-10-22 | 17:08 | 17:57 | 240 | X2.9 | S27W31 | 5747 |
| 1989-12-31 | 09:32 | 09:45 | 45 | X2.8 | S25W51 | 5852 |
| 1989-07-25 | 08:39 | 08:43 | 29 | X2.6 | N25W84 | 5603 |
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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2,608 flares of class C+ in 1989: 620 M-class and 59 X-class.