Name: Hail in New Jersey, April 19, 2002
Start: 2002-04-19T19:15
End: 2002-04-19T19:15
Location: New Jersey

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

Open the live radar over this ground

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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 2:15 PM EST, 5 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 2:15 PM EST, 5 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
315 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002

FIRST LINE OF CONVTN PASSED THRU NRN COUNTIES WITHOUT MUCH ADO...
HOWEVER WE/RE STILL QUITE UNSTABLE AND MOIST AND THE NEXT LINE HAS
FORMED IN CNTRL PA AND IS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR SO WL CONT WITH THE
CHC RW/TRW INTO THE EVENING AS FRONT SLOWLY PUSHES SE ALONG WITH
UPPER DYNAMICS...AND BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS WL LIKELY FACTOR IN AS
WELL. MODELS ARE MORE CONSISTENT THAN PREVIOUS RUNS IN BRINGING THE
FRONT INTO OUR SRN ZONES LATE TNGT...SO WL CONT WITH CHC RW/TRW INTO
THE EVENING/TIL ARND MIDNITE AND THEN JUST CHC RW SRN AREAS OVRNGT.
THEN...ETA AND AVN ARE MORE IN LINE THAN YDA AND WITH FNT JUST ON
OUR SRN DOORSTEP IF NOT IN OUR SRN AREA...WL GO MORE PESSIMISTIC
WITH CLDS AND A 50 POP FOR SHWRS CNTRL AND S...AND EVEN A CHC OF A
TSTM S. CNTRL AREAS ARE PROGGED TO BE MORE STABLE. JUST A 30 POP
LEHIGH AND PARTS OF NWRN NJ...NOTHING FAR N. AS WAVE EXITS EWD WL GO
POPLESS SAT NITE...THEN ANOTHER WAVE SUN. WL HAVE RAIN CHANCES ALL
BUT NRN THIRD...WITH COLDER AIR TO FOLLOW SUN NITE AND MON.

NO GENL AGREEMENT ALL PERIODS AMONG FWC/S FAN/S AND MAV/S...BUT WENT
A BIT COLDER THAN FWC/S WITH MORE IN THE WAY OF CLDS PRECIP AND A
NLY FLO SAT AND SUN.

NOTHING UP ON THE MARINE...MORE ACTION POSSIBLE IN THE EXTDD PD.

FCSTID = 17
MPO   52  63  36  52 /  30  20  10  20
ABE   55  69  41  57 /  30  30  10  20
RDG   56  70  42  58 /  30  30  10  30
PHL   60  72  46  61 /  30  50  10  30
12N   54  66  40  55 /  30  20  10  20
SMQ   58  71  44  59 /  30  30  10  20
TTN   59  71  45  60 /  30  50  10  30
MIV   59  70  43  60 /  30  50  10  30
ACY   57  67  45  58 /  30  50  10  30
ILG   60  71  45  61 /  30  50  10  30
DOV   60  71  45  60 /  30  50  10  30
GED   61  72  45  60 /  30  50  10  30
ESN   61  71  45  60 /  30  50  10  30

.PHI...
DE...NONE.
MD...NONE.
NJ...NONE.
PA...NONE.
MARINE...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 19, 6:45 PM EST, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
745 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

415 PM    HAMMONTON                 NJ   FLOOD
04/18/02   ATLANTIC                       RT 30 SHUT DOWN DUE TO
                                          FLOODING

630 PM    COLLINGSWOOD              NJ   FLOOD
04/18/02   CAMDEN                         STREET FLOODING ADDITIONAL
                                          FLOODING REPORTED
                                          IN PENNSAUKEN AND WINSLOW
                                          TOWNSHIP.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Morris

When: April 19, 7:15 PM EST
Where: Morris County, East Hanover
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.833, -74.367

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in New Jersey in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in New Jersey, April 2002

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: 5292602.