Feb 17, 2003
The most powerful storm to affect New Jersey since the Blizzard of 1996 struck during the President's Day Weekend. One person in Middlesex County was directly killed after a canopy full of snow collapsed on him. Snow slowly spread from south to north from around sunrise on Sunday the 16th in Cumberland and Cape May Counties to into the evening in Sussex County on the 16th. The heaviest snow fell during the daylight hours of the 16th in the southern half of the state and during the first half of
Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5347863). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Eastern Ocean County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.