Weather alerts in New Jersey, 1987
64 weather alerts in 1987, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1987. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 64
- Warnings
- 64
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- July34 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 14, 198712 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 61 min |
| May 12, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 15 min |
| Jun 13, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 58 min |
| Jun 20, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 60 min |
| Jul 2, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 44 min |
| Jul 2, 9:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Monmouth | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 3:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 80 min |
| Jul 12, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 31 min |
| Jul 12, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 26 min |
| Jul 14, 2:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Essex, Morris | 75 min |
| Jul 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 45 min |
| Jul 14, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Morris, Union | 48 min |
| Jul 14, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Middlesex, Somerset | 62 min |
| Jul 14, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Monmouth | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Hudson, Passaic | 51 min |
| Jul 14, 4:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Middlesex, Monmouth | 105 min |
| Jul 14, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 63 min |
| Jul 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 50 min |
| Jul 14, 6:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Morris, Passaic | 48 min |
| Jul 19, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Somerset | 59 min |
| Jul 19, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 57 min |
| Jul 21, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 59 min |
| Jul 26, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 62 min |
| Jul 30, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Warren | 48 min |
| Jul 30, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 58 min |
| Jul 30, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 58 min |
| Jul 30, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Middlesex, Monmouth | 74 min |
| Jul 30, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 56 min |
| Jul 30, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 26 min |
| Jul 31, 3:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 41 min |
| Aug 5, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Morris, Passaic | 3 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Hunterdon, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 61 min |
| Aug 9, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 11:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 62 min |
| Aug 10, 2:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 4 hr |
| Sep 18, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 58 min |
| Sep 18, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 64 min |
| Sep 22, 10:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 61 min |
| Sep 22, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 59 min |
| Sep 22, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 36 min |
| Sep 22, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 41 min |
| Sep 22, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden | 40 min |
| Sep 22, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 56 min |
| Sep 22, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 25 min |
| Sep 22, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 59 min |
| Oct 7, 2:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 56 min |
| Oct 7, 2:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 56 min |
| Oct 27, 11:21 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 3 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 55 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 9 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Burlington County17
- Ocean County10
- Mercer County9
- Atlantic County6
- Camden County6
- Salem County4
- Monmouth County4
- Passaic County4
- Essex County4
- Morris County4
- Cape May County4
- Gloucester County3
- Bergen County3
- Cumberland County3
- Middlesex County3
- Somerset County3
- Union County2
- Hudson County1
- Warren County1
- Hunterdon County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.