Freeze Watches in New Jersey
123 freeze 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 freeze watches reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Watches
- 123
- Busiest year
- 201214 freeze watches
- Average year
- 6over 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.
- Passaic County38
- Cumberland County38
- Burlington County37
- Atlantic County34
- Ocean County32
- Sussex County31
- Camden County30
- Gloucester County30
- Salem County30
- Warren County27
- Cape May County26
- Morris County26
- Union County24
- Hunterdon County23
- Monmouth County23
- Essex County23
- Somerset County22
- Mercer County22
- Bergen County22
- Middlesex County21
- Hudson County16
The latest freeze watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:19 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Passaic, Union | 24 hr |
| Apr 18, 1:02 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 37 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:19 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 5 more | 31 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:12 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | OKX | Essex, Hudson, Union | 12 hr |
| Apr 6, 12:15 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more | 14 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.