There have been at least 182 confirmed tornadoes in the U.S. stateofNew Jersey since 1950. On average, there are three tornadoes each year in the state, although there have been as many seven on a single day, which occurred both in 1989 and 2023. They have occurred in every month but December and January. The state's most active year was 1989, with 19 confirmed tornadoes. Most tornadoes in New Jersey have been weak and short-lived. However, an F2 twister in 1958 crossed 48.5 mi (78.1 km) of the southern portion of the state, the longest tracked event on record. It touched down in Camden County and ended in Ocean County. Ranked in intensity using the Fujita scaleorEnhanced Fujita scale, there have been five F3 or EF3 twisters in the state since 1950, most recently in 2021. There have been at least three deadly tornadoes on record in the state, resulting in a collective 7 fatalities. A tornado in 1835 hit New Brunswick, killing five people. In 1941, a tornado in Gloucester County killed a person. In 2003, a tornado in Burlington County flung a tree limb onto three cars, killing one person.
Each year, three tornadoes on average touch down in New Jersey, most of them weak and short-lived. There were 19 confirmed tornadoes in 1989, the most in a year since the start of recordkeeping in the National Centers for Environmental Information. Several years, most recently in 2018, had no recorded tornadoes in the state. There is a possible undercount in unpopulated areas in South Jersey, including around the New Jersey Pine Barrens and in Salem and Cumberland counties.[1]
About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a tornado passed over the town of Piscataway, about two miles from New Brunswick, which destroyed every house but two. ...
At 1.20 afternoon a wind-storm, with all the of [sic] a tornado, struck this city from the south- west, doing great damage to property ...
A tornado swept over this city yesterday afternoon, doing great damage. Houses, churches, factories and all buildings in the storm's path, which was three ...
In northern New Jersey, damage was reported along a seven-mile swath from Ringwood to Wyckoff. The area is 20 miles west of Fort Lee, where a tornado was confirmed by the weather service. 'People saw a funnel cloud,' said Police Chief James O'Connor of Oakland, a town east of Ringwood that was affected. 'One man said the sound of the wind was like a locomotive passing through his living room.' In Wyckoff, 'windows in stores and houses literally exploded, and about 15 utility poles snapped right in half,' the coordinator of emergency management, Robert Shannon, said. No injuries were reported in Bergen or Passaic Counties. About 150 houses in Bergen were damaged, at a cost estimated at $2 million by an official of the county emergency management agency, Lieut. Edward C. Sturm. The damage in Passaic was also estimated at $2 million ...
A tornado touched down for 10 minutes last night in Washington Township, N.J., damaging five homes, knocking down several trees and cutting off power and phone service to more than a third of the town's 15,500 residents, the police said. No one was believed to have been injured in the storm, the police said. ...
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