Solar Flare WatchSolar flares in 2002
C2322
M219
X12
LargestX4.82002-07-23
M/X flares by month
- January 2002
- February 2002
- March 2002
- April 2002
- May 2002
- June 2002
- July 2002
- August 2002
- September 2002
- October 2002
- November 2002
- December 2002
Nearby years (M + X)
24
108
174
232
331
231
180
134
121
14
10
Top 20 flares
| Date | Begin | Peak | Min | Class | Location | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002-07-23 | 00:18 | 00:35 | 29 | X4.8 | S13E72 | 10039 |
| 2002-07-20 | 21:04 | 21:30 | 50 | X3.3 | – | – |
| 2002-08-24 | 00:49 | 01:12 | 42 | X3.1 | S02W81 | 10069 |
| 2002-07-15 | 19:59 | 20:08 | 15 | X3.0 | N19W01 | 10030 |
| 2002-05-20 | 15:21 | 15:27 | 10 | X2.1 | S21E65 | 9961 |
| 2002-07-18 | 07:24 | 07:44 | 25 | X1.8 | N19W30 | 10030 |
| 2002-04-21 | 00:43 | 01:51 | 115 | X1.5 | S14W84 | 9906 |
| 2002-07-03 | 02:08 | 02:13 | 8 | X1.5 | S20W51 | 10017 |
| 2002-08-30 | 12:47 | 13:29 | 48 | X1.5 | N15E74 | 10095 |
| 2002-10-31 | 16:47 | 16:52 | 8 | X1.2 | – | – |
| 2002-08-03 | 18:59 | 19:07 | 12 | X1.0 | S16W76 | 10039 |
| 2002-08-21 | 05:28 | 05:34 | 8 | X1.0 | S12W51 | 10069 |
| 2002-01-09 | 17:42 | 18:01 | 30 | M9.5 | N13W02 | 9773 |
| 2002-07-26 | 20:51 | 21:12 | 38 | M8.7 | S19E26 | 10044 |
| 2002-07-17 | 06:58 | 07:13 | 21 | M8.5 | N21W17 | 10030 |
| 2002-04-10 | 12:23 | 12:31 | 17 | M8.2 | N15W14 | 9893 |
| 2002-11-18 | 02:01 | 02:08 | 10 | M7.4 | S17E56 | 10198 |
| 2002-12-20 | 13:13 | 13:18 | 7 | M6.8 | S25W34 | 10226 |
| 2002-08-04 | 08:58 | 09:55 | 95 | M6.6 | – | – |
| 2002-04-04 | 15:24 | 15:32 | 14 | M6.1 | – | – |
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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2,553 flares of class C+ in 2002: 219 M-class and 12 X-class.