New Jersey

Storm History: Gloucester County, New Jersey

952 episodes, 1,217 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gloucester 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
1,217
Deaths
9
Injuries
48
Damage
$108 million
Episodes
952

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.

Open the live radar over Gloucester County

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
Thunderstorm Wind228110$19 million
Flash Flood10110$575,000
Hail9400$6.2 million
Winter Weather81110
Tornado7509$16 million
Winter Storm74515$2.0 million
Heat6210
Strong Wind6000$110,000
High Wind5500$1.5 million
Heavy Snow4700
Drought4000$40 million
Coastal Flood3800$816,000
Excessive Heat3700
Heavy Rain3500
Flood3500$14 million
Dense Fog3400
Cold/Wind Chill2601
Astronomical Low Tide2500
Storm Surge/Tide2101$1.0 million
Lightning1202$125,000
Tropical Storm900$100,000
Blizzard800$1.0 million
Wildfire800$50,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$5.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Ice Storm300
Frost/Freeze200
Sleet100

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 Gloucester County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gloucester CountyEvery warning in Gloucester 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.