EF0 tornado in Ocean County, New Jersey

An EF-0 tornado touched down in a residential area along Sycamore

Drive in Little Egg Harbor Township. The tornado snapped numerous

large tree limbs and snapped a few trees along Sycamore Drive and

Harbourtown Boulevard. One small tree was uprooted on Sycamore

Drive. Some homes suffered some cosmetic damage along Rosemont Lane

and Harbourtown Boulevard where some sections of vinyl fencing were

blown over. The tornado continued along Rosemont Lane where numerous

tree limbs were down. A residence at the intersection of Rosemont

Lane and Vista Court had 2 sections of wooden fencing blown out and

tossed approximately 50 feet, striking the rear side of the house. A

few houses along Vista Court also sustained some cosmetic damage.

The tornado ended at the end of Vista Court where a few trees were

snapped or uprooted.

Tropical Storm Elsa affected much of the coastal mid-Atlantic on the night of July 8 and into the morning of the 9th. The storm maintained much of its intensity despite a long track over land as it began to interact with a mid-latitude trough. Overall, impacts across the mid-Atlantic were fairly minimal. One to three inches of rain, locally a little higher, fell across a large area, but produced little in the way of flooding impacts. With the center tracking near the coast, tropical storm force wind conditions were limited, and confined mainly to immediate coastal areas. Elsa did produce a couple of short-lived tornadoes over eastern New Jersey. The storm was fast moving, and departed into New England a few hours after daybreak on the 9th.