Alert archive / New Jersey / 1997
Weather alerts in New Jersey, May 1997
24 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 24
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 1, 19979 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 48 min |
| May 1, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 46 min |
| May 1, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Salem | 46 min |
| May 1, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 40 min |
| May 1, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 51 min |
| May 1, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 46 min |
| May 1, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex | 46 min |
| May 1, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 45 min |
| May 3, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Essex and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 56 min |
| May 6, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 32 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Hudson, Union | 56 min |
| May 6, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland | 32 min |
| May 6, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 32 min |
| May 6, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 29 min |
| May 19, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 19, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 48 min |
| May 19, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 63 min |
| May 19, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 66 min |
| May 19, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 5 more | 3 hr |
| May 25, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester | 49 min |
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 | 5 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Burlington County6
- Passaic County6
- Sussex County6
- Bergen County5
- Camden County5
- Essex County5
- Gloucester County5
- Mercer County5
- Middlesex County5
- Union County5
- Warren County5
- Hudson County4
- Hunterdon County4
- Morris County4
- Somerset County4
- Salem County3
- Monmouth County3
- Ocean County3
- Atlantic County3
- Cumberland County2
- Cape May County1
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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.