Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1996
C81
M4
X1
LargestX2.61996-07-09
M/X flares by month
Nearby years (M + X)
644
212
74
25
11
5
24
108
174
232
331
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-07-09 | 09:01 | 09:12 | 48 | X2.6 | S10W30 | 7978 |
| 1996-04-22 | 04:42 | 04:43 | 8 | M3.6 | S13W76 | 7958 |
| 1996-07-09 | 01:49 | 02:04 | 33 | M1.4 | S10W28 | 7978 |
| 1996-07-10 | 03:30 | 03:31 | 4 | M1.0 | S11W39 | 7978 |
| 1996-11-29 | 20:36 | 20:43 | 33 | M1.0 | S06W47 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-30 | 20:49 | 21:01 | 130 | C8.6 | S05W63 | 7999 |
| 1996-11-25 | 00:17 | 00:22 | 35 | C8.0 | S03E16 | 7999 |
| 1996-04-22 | 03:27 | 03:40 | 24 | C6.1 | S06W70 | 7958 |
| 1996-11-25 | 18:25 | 18:32 | 66 | C5.8 | S03E08 | 7999 |
| 1996-12-01 | 20:49 | 20:52 | 37 | C5.2 | S05W74 | 7999 |
| 1996-07-09 | 22:29 | 22:46 | 25 | C5.0 | – | – |
| 1996-07-12 | 15:13 | 15:30 | 78 | C4.9 | S11W72 | 7978 |
| 1996-07-08 | 21:34 | 21:59 | 48 | C4.8 | – | – |
| 1996-11-25 | 12:41 | 13:13 | 72 | C4.6 | S02E11 | 7999 |
| 1996-08-22 | 08:50 | 10:03 | 136 | C4.5 | – | – |
| 1996-07-09 | 05:03 | 05:13 | 50 | C3.8 | S11W30 | 7978 |
| 1996-07-09 | 00:18 | 00:51 | 46 | C3.7 | – | – |
| 1996-08-22 | 08:05 | 08:45 | 47 | C3.6 | – | – |
| 1996-11-24 | 16:29 | 16:47 | 33 | C3.3 | – | – |
| 1996-05-05 | 18:22 | 18:38 | 31 | C3.1 | – | – |
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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86 flares of class C+ in 1996: 4 M-class and 1 X-class.