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New Jersey Flood Stories

1,015 first-hand accounts of flood events in New Jersey, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Apr 16, 2018

Heavy rainfall developed across the area on the morning of April 16th ahead of a slow moving warm front. This rain developed in an environment with precipitable water values greater than 1.25 inches, well above normal for mid April.

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Flood

Bergen, NJ · Apr 16, 2018

Heavy rainfall developed across the area on the morning of April 16th ahead of a slow moving warm front. This rain developed in an environment with precipitable water values greater than 1.25 inches, well above normal for mid April.

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Flood

Bergen, NJ · Apr 16, 2018

Heavy rainfall developed across the area on the morning of April 16th ahead of a slow moving warm front. This rain developed in an environment with precipitable water values greater than 1.25 inches, well above normal for mid April.

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Flood

Union, NJ · Apr 16, 2018

Heavy rainfall developed across the area on the morning of April 16th ahead of a slow moving warm front. This rain developed in an environment with precipitable water values greater than 1.25 inches, well above normal for mid April.

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Flood

Bergen, NJ · Apr 16, 2018

Heavy rainfall developed across the area on the morning of April 16th ahead of a slow moving warm front. This rain developed in an environment with precipitable water values greater than 1.25 inches, well above normal for mid April.

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Flood

Bergen, NJ · Apr 16, 2018

Heavy rainfall developed across the area on the morning of April 16th ahead of a slow moving warm front. This rain developed in an environment with precipitable water values greater than 1.25 inches, well above normal for mid April.

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Aug 3, 2019

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a pre-frontal trough ahead of an approaching cold front. With weak steering flow in place, these storms were able to produce 1-2 inches of rainfall in a short amount of time, leading to isolated reports of flash flooding across portions…

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Aug 3, 2019

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a pre-frontal trough ahead of an approaching cold front. With weak steering flow in place, these storms were able to produce 1-2 inches of rainfall in a short amount of time, leading to isolated reports of flash flooding across portions…

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Aug 3, 2019

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a pre-frontal trough ahead of an approaching cold front. With weak steering flow in place, these storms were able to produce 1-2 inches of rainfall in a short amount of time, leading to isolated reports of flash flooding across portions…

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Aug 3, 2019

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a pre-frontal trough ahead of an approaching cold front. With weak steering flow in place, these storms were able to produce 1-2 inches of rainfall in a short amount of time, leading to isolated reports of flash flooding across portions…

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Flash Flood

Union, NJ · Jul 3, 2018

A surface trough developing out ahead of an approaching cold front initiated scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms across northeast New Jersey.

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Flash Flood

Union, NJ · Jul 3, 2018

A surface trough developing out ahead of an approaching cold front initiated scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms across northeast New Jersey.

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Jul 3, 2018

A surface trough developing out ahead of an approaching cold front initiated scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms across northeast New Jersey.

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Flash Flood

Union, NJ · Jul 3, 2018

A surface trough developing out ahead of an approaching cold front initiated scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms across northeast New Jersey.

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Jul 3, 2018

A surface trough developing out ahead of an approaching cold front initiated scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms across northeast New Jersey.

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Flash Flood

Essex, NJ · Jul 3, 2018

A surface trough developing out ahead of an approaching cold front initiated scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms across northeast New Jersey.

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Flash Flood

Union, NJ · Jul 31, 2019

Showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon as precipitable water values rose above 1.50 inches, resulting in isolated flash flooding in urban northeast New Jersey.

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Flash Flood

Union, NJ · Aug 13, 2020

A cold front just south of the region gradually retreated back to the north during the morning hours. This boundary served as a focus for the development of showers and thunderstorms.

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Flash Flood

Union, NJ · Aug 13, 2020

A cold front just south of the region gradually retreated back to the north during the morning hours. This boundary served as a focus for the development of showers and thunderstorms.

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Jun 25, 2019

Warm advection associated with an approaching warm front produced a line of showers and thunderstorms that moved through northeast New Jersey during the early morning hours of June 25th.

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Flash Flood

Bergen, NJ · Jun 25, 2019

Warm advection associated with an approaching warm front produced a line of showers and thunderstorms that moved through northeast New Jersey during the early morning hours of June 25th.

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Coastal Flood

Eastern Monmouth, NJ · Jan 10, 2016

A low pressure system moving through the eastern Great Lakes Saturday and Sunday, January 9th and 10th, produced a persistent southerly flow which in turn created tidal anomolies of 1 to 2 feet, enough to cause moderate tidal flooding on the Ocean front and back bays at the time…

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Coastal Flood

Eastern Atlantic, NJ · Jan 10, 2016

A low pressure system moving through the eastern Great Lakes Saturday and Sunday, January 9th and 10th, produced a persistent southerly flow which in turn created tidal anomolies of 1 to 2 feet, enough to cause moderate tidal flooding on the Ocean front and back bays at the time…

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Coastal Flood

Eastern Monmouth, NJ · Feb 9, 2016

An onshore flow associated with low pressure along the mid-Atlantic coast, in combination with a new moon, produced moderate coastal flooding during the morning high tide on February 9th.

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