Alert archive / New Jersey / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in New Jersey, 2020
6 tornado watches in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- August3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- August 4, 20202 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 13, 11:33 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bergen, Passaic, Sussex | 7 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:26 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cape May, Cumberland, Salem | 9 hr |
| Aug 4, 7:23 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Essex, Gloucester and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 30, 1:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 7 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Atlantic County4
- Burlington County4
- Camden County4
- Cape May County4
- Cumberland County4
- Gloucester County4
- Ocean County4
- Salem County4
- Hunterdon County3
- Mercer County3
- Middlesex County3
- Monmouth County3
- Somerset County3
- Sussex County3
- Morris County2
- Warren County2
- Bergen County2
- Passaic County2
- Essex County1
- Hudson County1
- Union County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.