Tornado, Cape May
- When
- May 27, 10:08 AM EST
- Where
- Cape May County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.270, -74.670
Tornado and Damaging Winds in New Jersey, May 27, 1989
2 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Atlantic
- When
- May 27, 9:59 AM CST
- Where
- Atlantic County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.630, -74.820
Thunderstorm Wind, Atlantic
- When
- May 27, 10:05 AM CST
- Where
- Atlantic County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.370, -74.450
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 27, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 27, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 27, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, May 27, 1989
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 27, 1989
- Hail in Missouri, May 27, 1989
- Hail in Alabama, May 27, 1989
- Hail in Indiana, May 27, 1989
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 27, 1989
- Hail in Nebraska, May 27, 1989
- Hail in Iowa, May 27, 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, May 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: 10082693, 10082691, 10082692.