Thunderstorm Wind, Cape May
- When
- July 9, 9:30 PM EST
- Where
- Cape May County, Cape May
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.085, -74.850 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Damaging Wind in New Jersey, July 9, 2002
A thunderstorm damaged beach tents and a lifeguard boat in Cape May. Cape May Harbor recorded a wind gust to 48 mph.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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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 thunderstorm damaged beach tents and a lifeguard boat in Cape May. Cape May Harbor recorded a wind gust to 48 mph.
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 Jul 9, 9:25 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 9:25 PM EST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1025 PM EDT TUE JUL 9 2002 DISC: SOME WORDING CHANGES TO SHOW END OF PCPN. OTHERWISE VRY STRONG TSTMS ACROSS ERN DEL INTO SNJ WITH POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. TSMS HAVE HISTORY OF TREES/WIRES DOWN. SEE YA AT 300 AM.... S.PHI... DE...NONE. MD...NONE. NJ...NONE. PA...NONE. MARINE...SCA NJ/DE COASTS. EBERWINE ****************************************************************
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- 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
- Heat in California, July 9 to 15, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 9, 2002
- Wildfire in Oregon, July 9 to 26, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Flood in North Dakota, July 9 to 20, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, July 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 9, 2002
- Flash Flooding and Lightning Strike in West Virginia, July 9 to 10, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, July 9, 2002
- Tornado in Indiana, July 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 9, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, July 9, 2002
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, July 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: 5308558.