Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in New Jersey, 2002
4 tornado watches in 2002. 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 in 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20021 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem | 4 hr |
| May 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:05 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Salem | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Salem County4
- Atlantic County3
- Cape May County3
- Cumberland County3
- Burlington County2
- Camden County2
- Gloucester County2
- Mercer County2
- Monmouth County2
- Ocean County2
- Bergen County1
- Essex County1
- Hudson County1
- Hunterdon County1
- Middlesex County1
- Morris County1
- Passaic County1
- Somerset County1
- Sussex County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20012003
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.