Tornado, Middlesex
- When
- August 29, 5:43 PM CST
- Where
- Middlesex County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 40.530, -74.350
Tornado in New Jersey, August 29, 1989
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, August 29, 1989
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, August 29, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 29, 1989
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 29, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, August 29, 1989
- Damaging Wind in New York, August 29, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 29, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 29, 1989
- Hail in Oregon, August 29, 1989
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 1989Every state in 1989This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for New Jersey, 1989Warnings in New Jersey, August 1989
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10082728.