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EF1 tornado in Atlantic County, New Jersey

Tornado May 16, 2025 · Atlantic 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 first damage in Collings Lakes was noted along Malaga Road where large branches were downed and some metal roof sheeting was peeled off an out building. Continued damage, mostly large branches downed continued near the intersection of Cains Mill Road and Colton Lane. The last observed damage in this path was near the intersection of

Cloverdale Lane and Wiltshire Drive.

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 Cedar Lake (39.5970, -74.8910).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267873. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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