Solar Cycle 22 - Top 50 geomagnetic storms

On this page you will find an overview of the strongest geomagnetic storms from Solar Cycle 22 together with links to more information in our archive. Storms are ranked by the Disturbance storm-time index (Dst) that is designed to measure the magnetic signature of magnetospheric currents observed in the equatorial regions. The Dst index is provided by the World Data Center for geomagnetism in Kyoto.

		Dst	Ap	Kp max
1	1989/03/14	-589nT	158	9
2	1989/03/13	-472nT	246	9
3	1991/11/09	-354nT	119	8+
4	1991/03/25	-298nT	130	9-
5	1992/05/10	-288nT	179	9-
6	1990/04/10	-281nT	124	8
7	1991/03/24	-281nT	161	9-
8	1991/11/08	-280nT	98	9-
9	1989/10/21	-268nT	146	8+
10	1989/11/17	-266nT	109	8
11	1989/09/19	-255nT	70	8
12	1991/10/29	-254nT	128	8+
13	1989/11/18	-235nT	45	7
14	1991/06/05	-223nT	196	9-
15	1989/10/20	-202nT	112	8+
16	1992/02/09	-201nT	79	7
17	1994/04/17	-201nT	100	8+
18	1991/10/28	-196nT	98	8+
19	1991/11/01	-196nT	109	8+
20	1991/07/09	-194nT	117	8
21	1990/04/11	-190nT	64	7-
22	1991/11/02	-189nT	41	7
23	1990/03/30	-187nT	69	8
24	1991/07/13	-183nT	134	9-
25	1990/04/12	-174nT	99	8-
26	1992/02/26	-174nT	65	8
27	1989/10/22	-173nT	51	6+
28	1991/06/06	-172nT	49	7-
29	1992/02/21	-171nT	69	7+
30	1986/09/12	-170nT	89	9-
31	1991/08/19	-170nT	74	8-
32	1992/02/03	-170nT	92	8-
33	1992/05/11	-169nT	70	7+
34	1991/03/26	-168nT	114	8
35	1993/04/05	-165nT	87	7+
36	1991/10/02	-164nT	67	6+
37	1990/03/12	-162nT	42	7+
38	1993/09/13	-161nT	91	8-
39	1988/05/06	-160nT	106	7+
40	1989/03/15	-159nT	49	7-
41	1991/07/14	-158nT	75	7-
42	1991/10/01	-157nT	54	7+
43	1988/10/10	-156nT	85	8-
44	1988/03/26	-154nT	49	7
45	1989/08/29	-152nT	58	7+
46	1989/09/26	-151nT	54	7
47	1990/06/13	-150nT	70	8-
48	1995/04/07	-149nT	100	8
49	1989/09/18	-148nT	52	8-
50	1990/03/13	-148nT	29	6+

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