Alert archive / New Jersey

Weather alerts in Burlington County, New Jersey

5,649 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Burlington County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
5,649
Warnings
1,828
Watches
777
Advisories
1,787
Busiest year
2011428 alerts
Average year
138over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 67% of tornado reports in Burlington County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 4 minutes before, and 75% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200910100%0
201140100%0
20122150%0
201410100%0
201520100%0
201710100%0
201810100%0
20196183%20%
202020100%0
202110460%3100%8 min
202220100%0
20236433%475%1 min
202510100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008381658%743%21 min
2009281546%1392%27 min
2010351946%6100%27 min
2011633840%3589%19 min
2012302033%1788%16 min
2013241154%989%35 min
2014321747%2990%17 min
201511736%2190%30 min
2016432542%2879%26 min
2017352626%2871%24 min
201811645%367%10 min
2019694633%5986%26 min
2020625610%11792%25 min
2021634332%7089%22 min
2022312132%3697%20 min
2023603640%4691%26 min
2024402928%41100%23 min
2025332330%1587%23 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084325%1100%52 min
20094175%20%
20104175%1100%94 min
20118275%250%2 min
20126267%10%
201310910%367%35 min
20148450%2100%24 min
20156517%0
20169544%0
20176433%3100%131 min
201814750%4100%89 min
2019141029%1385%95 min
202011110%6100%90 min
2021171418%2692%181 min
20223233%0
20239811%5100%54 min
202414750%683%38 min
2025161131%8100%80 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 22, 4:14 PM EDTCoastal Flood WarningPHI3 days
Sep 3, 5:26 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Sep 3, 1:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Sep 1, 9:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI57 min
Sep 1, 9:16 PM EDTTornado WarningPHI12 min
Sep 1, 9:07 PM EDTTornado WarningPHI21 min
Sep 1, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI71 min
Sep 1, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI52 min
Aug 28, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI52 min
Aug 28, 1:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Aug 27, 8:09 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHI5 hr
Aug 27, 7:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI3 hr

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.