New Jersey

Storm History: Bergen County, New Jersey

499 episodes, 1,081 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bergen County, New Jersey: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
1,081
Deaths
13
Injuries
31
Damage
$82 million
Episodes
499

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.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Flash Flood34933$18 million
Thunderstorm Wind247213$1.4 million
Hail15922$322,000
Flood8410$52 million
Tornado4003$5.9 million
Heavy Snow3900
Winter Storm3200
Winter Weather2803
Strong Wind2502$1.6 million
Heavy Rain2000
High Wind2001$3.1 million
Lightning1122$21,000
Excessive Heat900
Blizzard820
Tropical Storm302
Dense Fog300
Ice Storm200
Funnel Cloud100
Coastal Flood110

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Bergen County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bergen CountyEvery warning in Bergen County since 1986Every county in New Jersey

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.