Alert archive / New Jersey / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Jersey, May 1997
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 1997. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 20, 19972 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 1, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hudson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Camden, Essex, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Essex and 14 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| May 19, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 5 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Essex County4
- Hunterdon County4
- Mercer County4
- Middlesex County4
- Morris County4
- Passaic County4
- Somerset County4
- Sussex County4
- Union County4
- Warren County4
- Bergen County3
- Camden County3
- Gloucester County3
- Hudson County3
- Burlington County2
- Salem County2
- Monmouth County2
- Atlantic County1
- Cumberland County1
- Ocean County1
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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.