Alert archive / New Jersey

Weather alerts in Cumberland County, New Jersey

3,814 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cumberland County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,814
Warnings
952
Watches
594
Advisories
1,183
Busiest year
2011277 alerts
Average year
95over 40 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, 0% of tornado reports in Cumberland County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
201110100%0
201910100%10%
202020100%0
202120100%0
202520100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200823770%475%11 min
2009261062%888%33 min
2010241729%8100%39 min
2011311745%1493%27 min
201213931%2095%31 min
20139633%978%27 min
201413562%1164%25 min
201510820%2100%12 min
2016211052%2681%16 min
2017291355%1155%37 min
20185180%10%
2019392536%8100%18 min
2020473623%24100%24 min
2021161225%650%17 min
20226350%30%
2023251444%1100%20 min
202414750%367%31 min
2025181139%4100%33 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20094250%475%49 min
20117186%0
2012110%1100%27 min
20135340%2100%38 min
2014330%4100%104 min
20156517%3100%80 min
20164250%1100%16 min
20175340%2100%23 min
20186183%3100%19 min
20192150%0
20204250%367%36 min
202110100%0
202320100%0
20242150%0
20255180%0

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 5, 1:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI2 hr
Sep 1, 9:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI42 min
Sep 1, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPHI59 min
Sep 1, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI49 min
Sep 1, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI58 min
Aug 23, 4:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Aug 20, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI50 min
Aug 20, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningPHI29 min
Aug 20, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI37 min
Aug 20, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI51 min
Aug 20, 4:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Aug 17, 4:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI2 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.