New Jersey, 2004

Heavy Rain in New Jersey, November 12 to 13, 2004

November 12 to 13, 2004 · NWS PHI · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

A low pressure system moving northeast along the Atlantic seaboard produced moderate to heavy rain across southeast New Jersey from the afternoon of the 12th into the early morning of the 13th. The heavy rain caused poor drainage flooding.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
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.

What happened

The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.

A low pressure system moving northeast along the Atlantic seaboard produced moderate to heavy rain across southeast New Jersey from the afternoon of the 12th into the early morning of the 13th. The heavy rain caused poor drainage flooding. The heavy rain ended prior to arrival of the high tide during the morning of the 13th. Storm totals included 3.40 inches in Absecon (Atlantic County) and Newport (Cumberland County), 2.17 inches in Wildwood (Cape May County), 2.13 inches in Margate and 1.81 inches at the Atlantic City International Airport.The heavy rain was caused by a low pressure system that formed on an old cold front in the lower Mississippi Valley during the morning of the 11th. It moved northeast and reached the southern Appalachians the morning of the 12th. It then move east to around Augusta, Georgia at 7 p.m. EST on the 12th, Norfolk, Virginia at 1 a.m. EST on the 13th and just east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts at 7 a.m. EST on the 13th. The low pressure system tapped moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and nearby Atlantic Ocean and dropped it onto the region.

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 Nov 12, 11:40 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 12, 11:40 AM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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The radar

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Event by event

3 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Rain, Atlantic

When
November 12, 2:00 PM EST to November 13, 4:00 AM EST
Where
Atlantic County, Countywide
Reported by
AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates
39.469, -74.634 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Rain, Cape May

When
November 12, 2:00 PM EST to November 13, 4:00 AM EST
Where
Cape May County, Countywide
Reported by
AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates
39.085, -74.850 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy Rain, Cumberland

When
November 12, 2:00 PM EST to November 13, 4:00 AM EST
Where
Cumberland County, Countywide
Reported by
AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates
39.328, -75.129 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Heavy Rain
Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.

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

The same day elsewhere

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Every storm in New Jersey in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, November 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: 5425780, 5425781, 5425782.