Alert archive / New Jersey / 1998
Weather alerts in New Jersey, May 1998
15 weather alerts in May 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 15
- Warnings
- 12
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 6, 19984 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 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington | 60 min |
| May 6, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 33 min |
| May 6, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex | 49 min |
| May 6, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Somerset | 50 min |
| May 12, 3:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 4 hr |
| May 20, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 36 min |
| May 20, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Hudson | 47 min |
| May 21, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May | 33 min |
| May 29, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 29, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Essex, Union | 45 min |
| May 29, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hudson | 64 min |
| May 29, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic | 36 min |
| May 31, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 7:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Sussex | 34 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 | 10 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Sussex County4
- Hudson County4
- Burlington County3
- Morris County3
- Hunterdon County3
- Somerset County3
- Mercer County3
- Middlesex County3
- Monmouth County3
- Bergen County3
- Essex County3
- Union County3
- Cape May County2
- Passaic County2
- Warren County2
- Atlantic County2
- Ocean County1
- Camden County1
- Cumberland County1
- Gloucester County1
- Salem 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.