Funnel Cloud, Sussex
- When
- May 13, 7:27 PM EST
- Where
- Sussex County, Montague
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.140, -74.690 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in New Jersey, May 13, 2000
S. Route 206 in Montague.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
A New Jersey state trooper sighted a funnel cloud over U.S. Route 206 in Montague. The funnel cloud did not touch down and no damage occurred with this phenomenon.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
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The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Wildfire in Virginia, May 13 to 14, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 13, 2000
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maryland, May 13, 2000
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strikes in Pennsylvania, May 13, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Hail in New York, May 13, 2000
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, May 13, 2000
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, May 13, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, May 13, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 13, 2000
- Flash Flooding in New York, May 13, 2000
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 13, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in New York, May 13 to 15, 2000
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, May 2000
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: 5146309.