New Jersey

Storm History: Salem County, New Jersey

790 episodes, 887 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Salem 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
887
Deaths
5
Injuries
31
Damage
$58 million
Episodes
790

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
Thunderstorm Wind11300$92,000
Winter Weather75013
Winter Storm6901$2.0 million
Heat6000
Strong Wind5800$73,000
High Wind5501$355,000
Hail5120$6.3 million
Flash Flood4500$6.3 million
Heavy Snow4100
Drought4000
Dense Fog3414
Heavy Rain3200
Tornado3110$11 million
Coastal Flood3000$316,000
Flood2700$24 million
Excessive Heat27012
Cold/Wind Chill2500
Astronomical Low Tide2500
Storm Surge/Tide1900$1.0 million
Blizzard700$800,000
Lightning400$101,000
Wildfire400
Tropical Storm400$100,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)310$5.0 million
Ice Storm300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Frost/Freeze200
Funnel Cloud100

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 Salem County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Salem CountyEvery warning in Salem 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.