The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down in northern Burlington County Saturday night during the violent thunderstorms that swept through New Jersey.
The tornado had an EF rating of 1 with estimated peak winds of 80 to 90 miles per hour, the weather service said in a Sunday evening statement.
The twister touched down in the Columbus section of Mansfield Township at about 10:25 p.m. and dissipated about 11 minutes later in Jacobstown after covering 7.9 miles on the ground. The maximum width of the damage was 800 yards, and there were no injuries, the service said.
“We have determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down last evening in northwestern Burlington County, NJ with the line of severe thunderstorms that moved through the area,” the National Weather Service announced in a Facebook post.”
The National Weather Service sent a team of meteorologists to a spot in Burlington County on Sunday in order to determine whether a tornado touched down.
According to the report from their findings, the tornado started a “a narrow, discontinuous path” of damage beginning just east of the intersection of Route 206 and Columbus-Jobstown Road.
It left “significant tree damage” in a neighborhood north of Columbus-Jobstown Road. One tree was uprooted and another was snapped on Juliustown-Georgetown Road, and another tree was snapped on Route 68.
The funnel cloud also blew tree limbs onto utility lines on Monmouth Road (Route 537) near Tilghmans Corner, and other damage to trees in Jacobstown in North Hanover Township.
New Jersey typically gets about two tornadoes each year, but has had three confirmed so far this year — including Saturday’s twister in Burlington County — and four confirmed in 2020.
Two tornadoes touched down in New Jersey as Tropical Storm Elsa brushed the eastern Shore region during the early-morning hours on July 9.The first one was an EF-1, which packed peak winds of 100 mph as it touched down in Woodbine in Cape May County around 2:40 a.m. and lasted about two minutes, the weather service said.
The second twister was classified as a lower-level EF-0, with peak winds of 80 mph, touching down at 3:33 a.m. along Sycamore Drive in Little Egg Harbor Township in Ocean County.
New Jersey’s record is 17 tornadoes in a single year — 1989. The state had nine confirmed tornadoes in 2019 and also in 1987, and eight twisters in 1990 and 1973, according to the National Weather Service’s storm events database.
- Weather reporter Len Melisurgo contributed to this story.
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