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Tornado Warnings in New Jersey, 2026

19 tornado warnings in 2026. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
19
Busiest month
July12 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 21, 20269 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 11:49 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington, Monmouth, Ocean26 min
Jul 16, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington, Ocean28 min
Jul 21, 2:00 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIMorris30 min
Jul 21, 2:25 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIMorris50 min
Jul 21, 2:49 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXBergen, Passaic26 min
Jul 21, 2:56 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXEssex34 min
Jul 21, 2:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIMorris, Somerset48 min
Jul 21, 3:15 PM EDTTornado WarningOKXEssex, Passaic30 min
Jul 21, 5:49 PM EDTTornado WarningPHICape May26 min
Jul 21, 6:09 PM EDTTornado WarningPHICape May36 min
Jul 21, 7:06 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIOcean12 min
Jul 28, 1:49 PM EDTTornado WarningPHISussex, Warren26 min
Jul 28, 6:46 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIGloucester, Salem29 min
Aug 20, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIAtlantic37 min
Aug 20, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIAtlantic, Cape May, Cumberland29 min
Aug 20, 7:08 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPHICape May22 min
Aug 27, 1:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPHISalem11 min
Sep 1, 9:07 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington21 min
Sep 1, 9:16 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBurlington12 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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. Rebuilt daily.