Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 1997
C286
M21
X3
LargestX9.41997-11-06
M/X flares by month
- February 1997
- March 1997
- April 1997
- May 1997
- June 1997
- July 1997
- August 1997
- September 1997
- October 1997
- November 1997
- December 1997
Nearby years (M + X)
212
74
25
11
5
24
108
174
232
331
231
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-11-06 | 11:49 | 11:55 | 12 | X9.4 | S18W63 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-27 | 12:59 | 13:17 | 21 | X2.6 | N17E63 | 8113 |
| 1997-11-04 | 05:52 | 05:58 | 10 | X2.1 | S14W33 | 8100 |
| 1997-11-28 | 04:53 | 05:03 | 30 | M6.8 | N15E61 | 8113 |
| 1997-11-29 | 22:28 | 22:44 | 25 | M6.4 | N15E38 | 8113 |
| 1997-09-24 | 02:43 | 02:48 | 9 | M5.9 | S31E19 | 8088 |
| 1997-11-03 | 10:18 | 10:29 | 16 | M4.2 | – | – |
| 1997-11-04 | 02:32 | 02:42 | 31 | M4.1 | S20W25 | 8100 |
| 1997-09-24 | 10:57 | 11:06 | 13 | M3.0 | S28E18 | 8088 |
| 1997-11-26 | 18:31 | 18:37 | 9 | M2.0 | N16E75 | 8113 |
| 1997-04-01 | 13:25 | 13:48 | 36 | M1.9 | S25E16 | – |
| 1997-09-17 | 11:35 | 11:43 | 17 | M1.7 | N21W82 | 8084 |
| 1997-11-24 | 19:30 | 19:50 | 40 | M1.6 | – | – |
| 1997-08-29 | 22:56 | 23:32 | 58 | M1.4 | N30E17 | – |
| 1997-11-03 | 09:03 | 09:10 | 10 | M1.4 | S20W15 | 8100 |
| 1997-05-21 | 20:03 | 20:15 | 24 | M1.3 | N05W12 | – |
| 1997-11-04 | 01:27 | 01:35 | 13 | M1.3 | S20W24 | 8100 |
| 1997-12-01 | 02:32 | 02:37 | 15 | M1.2 | N19E27 | 8113 |
| 1997-11-28 | 19:54 | 20:09 | 23 | M1.1 | – | – |
| 1997-09-02 | 12:25 | 12:30 | 9 | M1.0 | N28W37 | 8076 |
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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310 flares of class C+ in 1997: 21 M-class and 3 X-class.