Tornado Watches in New Jersey
79 tornado 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 79
- Busiest year
- 20066 tornado watches
- Average year
- 3over 26 years on file
Over time
By year
Watches are counted from 1997, when the Storm Prediction Center archive begins.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Salem County58
- Cumberland County57
- Cape May County54
- Gloucester County54
- Camden County53
- Atlantic County52
- Burlington County49
- Hunterdon County40
- Mercer County40
- Ocean County40
- Warren County37
- Middlesex County34
- Morris County33
- Somerset County33
- Sussex County33
- Monmouth County33
- Passaic County27
- Bergen County26
- Essex County24
- Union County23
- Hudson County22
The latest tornado watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 28, 4:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland and 15 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 16, 11:30 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 6 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.