Weather alerts in Cape May County, New Jersey

3,481 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cape May County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 3,481
Warnings: 672
Watches: 559
Advisories: 1,222
Busiest year: 2010233 alerts
Average year: 89over 39 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

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	313
Tornado Warning	13
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	226
Tornado Watch	54
Mesoscale Discussion	468
Special Weather Statement	304
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	26
Flash Flood Warning	34
Flash Flood Watch	45
Flood Watch	36
Areal Flood Advisory	176
Winter
Blizzard Warning	6
Snow Squall Warning	5
Winter Storm Warning	38
Winter Storm Watch	32
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	6
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	84
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	8
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	10
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	57
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	1
Freeze Warning	35
Hard Freeze Warning	2
Extreme Cold Watch	1
Freeze Watch	26
Cold Weather Advisory	4
Frost Advisory	59
Wind Chill Advisory	11
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	48
High Wind Watch	31
Wind Advisory	220
Fire
Red Flag Warning	55
Fire Weather Watch	33
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	152
Freezing Fog Advisory	2
Tropical
Hurricane Warning	2
Tropical Storm Warning	11
Hurricane Watch	2
Tropical Storm Watch	6
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	73
Coastal Flood Watch	56
Coastal Flood Advisory	415
High Surf Advisory	34
Beach Hazards Statement	1
Coastal Flood Statement	124
Rip Current Statement	131

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 22, 4:14 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	PHI	3 days
Sep 5, 1:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	2 hr
Sep 1, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	42 min
Sep 1, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	57 min
Aug 20, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	50 min
Aug 20, 7:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PHI	22 min
Aug 20, 7:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	29 min
Aug 20, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	37 min
Aug 20, 4:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	4 hr
Aug 8, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	47 min
Jul 28, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	23 min
Jul 21, 10:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	4 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. Rebuilt daily.