Alert archive / New Jersey / 1997
Weather alerts in New Jersey, August 1997
31 weather alerts in August 1997, 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 31
- Warnings
- 29
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 16, 199711 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Passaic | 60 min |
| Aug 3, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 55 min |
| Aug 5, 4:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden | 117 min |
| Aug 5, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 60 min |
| Aug 5, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Union | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 8:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 9:16 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 104 min |
| Aug 13, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Ocean | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 83 min |
| Aug 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Warren | 50 min |
| Aug 16, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris | 48 min |
| Aug 16, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 63 min |
| Aug 16, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hudson | 77 min |
| Aug 16, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 49 min |
| Aug 16, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 12:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Passaic | 3 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 11:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 11:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Ocean | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 5:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Cumberland | 3 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland, Ocean | 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 | 19 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 10 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ocean County7
- Atlantic County6
- Passaic County5
- Burlington County5
- Cumberland County5
- Middlesex County4
- Bergen County3
- Essex County3
- Morris County3
- Camden County3
- Union County3
- Hunterdon County3
- Gloucester County2
- Hudson County2
- Mercer County2
- Monmouth County2
- Somerset County2
- Sussex County2
- Warren County2
- Cape May County1
- Salem County1
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.