Winter Weather — Northwestern Burlington, New Jersey

2007-01-21 to 2007-01-22 · Northwestern Burlington, New Jersey

Wider weather episode

A low pressure system that passed well to the south of New Jersey helped produce light snow across central New Jersey and a wintry mix of precipitation across southern New Jersey to the south of Burlington County. Snowfall accumulations were generally an inch or less and ice accretions were just a couple of hundredths of an inch. Untreated roads were very hazardous as air temperatures were below freezing throughout the event. The only reported fatal accident occurred in a location where precipitation fell as snow. Snow began falling around 6 p.m. EST on the 21st. South of Burlington County, as warmer air moved in aloft, the snow changed to freezing rain and sleet after midnight EST on the 22nd. Precipitation ended around 5 a.m. EST on the 22nd.

In Burlington County, in New Hanover Township, a 21-year-old male died. He lost control of his vehicle on the northbound lane of Cookstown-Browns Mills Road, drove off the road and crashed into a wood fence. Actual snow accumulations included 2.2 inches in Cape May (Cape May County), 1.0 inch in West Deptford (Gloucester County), 0.8 inches in New Lisbon (Burlington County) and Toms River (Ocean County), 0.7 inches in Wrightstown (Burlington County), 0.5 inches in Absecon (Atlantic County), the Atlantic City International Airport, Seabrook (Cumberland County) and Winslow (Camden County) and 0.4 inches in Pittsgrove (Salem County).

The precipitation was caused by a low pressure system that developed along the western Gulf Coast on the 20th. The low pressure system moved northeast (around Noon EST on the 21st, it was located along the Alabama and Mississippi border) and a secondary low pressure system formed on its warm front over eastern North Carolina overnight on the 21st. The secondary low pressure system became the primary low and moved quickly eastnortheast off of the North Carolina coast during the morning of the 22nd. Another low pressure system moved through the Ohio Valley on the 21st before it weakened and dissipated that night. This low though was able to pump in warmer air aloft and help change the precipitation over to sleet and freezing rain.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 12310. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.