Alert archive / New Jersey / Flash Flood Warnings
Flash Flood Warnings in New Jersey, 2024
47 flash flood warnings in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.
Flash Flood Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Flash Flood Warnings
- 47
- Busiest month
- August34 flash flood warnings
- Busiest day
- August 6, 202413 flash flood warnings
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
24 of 47 flash flood warnings covering New Jersey in 2024 had a flash flood report inside them; 70 of 81 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 64 minutes after it went out.
New Jersey, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash flood warnings | 47 | 24 | 49% | 81 | 86% | 64 min |
Each office's whole area, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly: flash flood warnings | 66 | 27 | 59% | 61 | 84% | 86 min |
| NWS New York, NY: flash flood warnings | 29 | 18 | 38% | 145 | 90% | 108 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
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.
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 29, 9:09 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Essex, Passaic | 81 min |
| Jun 14, 5:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 6:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 7:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 4 hr |
| Jun 22, 8:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 7:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 4 hr |
| Jun 30, 4:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Essex, Hudson, Union | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Ocean | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 7:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 2 hr |
| Jul 21, 7:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 112 min |
| Jul 24, 12:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 9:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 4 hr |
| Aug 2, 10:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 119 min |
| Aug 3, 5:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Hudson | 119 min |
| Aug 6, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 8 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monmouth | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monmouth, Ocean | 8 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean | 5 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 8:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 4 hr |
| Aug 6, 9:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 113 min |
| Aug 9, 3:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 108 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 100 min |
| Aug 9, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Mercer | 83 min |
| Aug 18, 3:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden | 93 min |
| Aug 18, 4:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Mercer | 2 hr |
| Aug 18, 4:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Warren | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Aug 18, 5:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Passaic | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 6 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 5 hr |
| Aug 18, 6:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bergen, Hudson, Union | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Burlington County14
- Warren County10
- Camden County8
- Bergen County7
- Hunterdon County6
- Middlesex County6
- Somerset County6
- Passaic County5
- Mercer County5
- Morris County5
- Monmouth County5
- Essex County4
- Hudson County4
- Union County4
- Gloucester County3
- Ocean County3
- Sussex County3
- Cape May County2
- Cumberland County2
- Atlantic County1
- Salem County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.