EF1 tornado in Gloucester County, New Jersey

Tornado May 16, 2025 · Gloucester County, New Jersey

EF1

Rating

8.1 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$60K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Gloucester County → Atlantic County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado originated in Williamstown near the intersection of Janvier Rd and Tuckahoe Rd where a large hardwood tree fell across Janvier Rd and some siding from the corner of a house peeled off. The tornado then moved SSE crossing Birch Ave where several hardwood trees were snapped at the trunks. This is where the tornado reached its greatest width of 300 yards. Traveling SE from there, where it likely lifted at times, the tornado crossed W Malaga Rd near the Victory Lakes community, damaging a wood fence and several small tree branches. Continuing its discontinuous path SE, a telephone pole was snapped near the intersection of E Piney Hollow Rd and US 322 before moving SSE again towards the Collings Lakes neighborhood.

The wider storm

A stationary front over the region resulted in two rounds of severe thunderstorms. The first was in the late morning through mid day. After a few hours lull, a second round of thunderstorms occurred late in the afternoon through the evening.

Began near Star Cross (39.6500, -75.0100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267859. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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