Hail in New Jersey, July 14, 2004

Name: Hail in New Jersey, July 14, 2004
Start: 2004-07-14T15:50
End: 2004-07-14T15:55
Location: New Jersey

July 14, 2004 · NWS OKX · 2 events in 1 county or zone

A cold front approached from the west on this day. A moderately moist airmass preceded this front.

Where it happened

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Wind
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Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
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: 2

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 OKX wrote it up.

A cold front approached from the west on this day. A moderately moist airmass preceded this front. Thunderstorms developed well ahead of the front and produced heavy rain and a few severe weather reports...mainly hail.

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 New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 3:55 PM EST, 23 hours 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:55 PM EST, 23 hours 55 minutes before

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The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 74 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:49 UTC.

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Event by event

2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Union

When: July 14, 3:50 PM EST
Where: Union County, Plainfield
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.617, -74.433

Hail, Union

When: July 14, 3:55 PM EST
Where: Union County, Elizabeth
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 40.667, -74.217

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

Every storm in New Jersey in 2004 Every state in 2004 This day in weather history Warnings in New Jersey, July 2004

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5413572, 5413573.