New Jersey, 2014

Winter Weather in New Jersey, January 18, 2014

January 18, 2014 · NWS PHI · 6 events in 6 counties and zones

A cold front coupled with an upper air disturbance triggered bands of accumulating snow showers across the Raritan Basin and Northwest New Jersey on the morning of the 18th. Snowfall averaged one to three inches in Sussex and Warren Counties and around one inch.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
6

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 cold front coupled with an upper air disturbance triggered bands of accumulating snow showers across the Raritan Basin and Northwest New Jersey on the morning of the 18th. Snowfall averaged one to three inches in Sussex and Warren Counties and around one inch. In Morris, Hunterdon, Somerset and Middlesex Counties. The snow showers started around 4 a.m. EST in far northwest New Jersey and not until around 7 a.m. EST in the Raritan Basin. Snow showers ended between 10 a.m. EST and Noon EST on the 18th. While there were snow showers farther south in the state, they were lighter and air temperatures were above freezing. Untreated roadways in the northwest part of the state were slippery.

Representative snowfall included 3.3 inches in Wantage (Sussex County), 2.5 inches in Hampton (Sussex County) and Hope (Warren County), 2.0 inches in Sussex (Sussex County) and Oxford (Warren County), 1.5 inches in Butler (Morris County), 1.1 inches in Sparta (Sussex County) and Succasunna (Morris County), 1.0 inch in Hackettstown (Warren County) and 0.5 inches in Bridgewater (Somerset County) and Bethlehem Township (Hunterdon County).

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 Jan 17, 9:42 PM EST, 6 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 9:42 PM EST, 6 hours 18 minutes before
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In the hours before

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Event by event

6 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

Winter Weather, Sussex

When
January 18, 4:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
Where
Sussex forecast zone
Reported by
NWS Employee
Coordinates
41.140, -74.690 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Warren

When
January 18, 5:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
Where
Warren forecast zone
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
40.857, -74.997 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Somerset

When
January 18, 7:00 AM EST to 11:30 AM EST
Where
Somerset forecast zone
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
40.564, -74.616 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Hunterdon

When
January 18, 7:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST
Where
Hunterdon forecast zone
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
40.567, -74.912 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Morris

When
January 18, 7:30 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Morris forecast zone
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
40.862, -74.544 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Winter Weather, Middlesex

When
January 18, 8:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
Where
Middlesex forecast zone
Reported by
Trained Spotter
Coordinates
40.440, -74.409 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Winter Weather
Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in New Jersey in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, January 2014

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: 495115, 495116, 495117, 495118, 495120, 495119.