Flood Watches in New Jersey
232 flood watches since 1986. 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 232
- Busiest year
- 201126 flood watches
- Average year
- 11over 21 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 county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Mercer County121
- Somerset County119
- Middlesex County118
- Hunterdon County114
- Morris County112
- Burlington County105
- Camden County101
- Passaic County100
- Gloucester County99
- Warren County99
- Monmouth County90
- Hudson County89
- Sussex County88
- Salem County87
- Bergen County72
- Essex County72
- Union County72
- Ocean County60
- Atlantic County42
- Cumberland County41
- Cape May County36
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12, 2:21 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 5 more | 34 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:20 AM EDT | Flood Watch | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 36 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:31 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer and 7 more | 35 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:27 PM EDT | Flood Watch | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 29 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:38 AM EDT | Flood Watch | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 19 hr |
| Aug 19, 2:08 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hunterdon and 9 more | 31 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:29 PM EDT | Flood Watch | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 24 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:20 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 6 more | 26 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:49 PM EDT | Flood Watch | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 47 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 7 more | 38 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:44 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 3 more | 31 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:31 PM EDT | Flood Watch | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 29 hr |
Nearby
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.