NJ weather: strong thunderstorms, isolated tornadoes, intense heat all threats Thursday
UPDATE: Watch of the severe storm displayed for certain parts of the threat of the NJ of hail, damaged winds, a possible tornado.
New Jersey faces a possible recovery of the warm and rainy weather conditions yesterday – with new threats of serious thunderstorms, hot temperatures and uncomfortable humidity for pressure for Thursday afternoon and Thursday evening.
Added to the mixture is another potential threat: isolated tornadoes.
It is the word of the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center, which say a high instability and a wind shear in the atmosphere could ensure that certain storm cells spawn clouds of funnel today.
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Although there were only 2% at 4% of chance that a tornado fell on Thursday in the Garden State region, it is a higher probability than this during a typical summer storm epidemic.
The forecasters say that there is slight chances of isolated tornadoes in New Jersey on Thursday, June 19, 2025, when strong thunderstorms that sweep the region at the end of the afternoon and evening.Storm prediction center
Most of the New Jersey faces an “improved risk” of serious thunderstorms today, which represents a higher risk that forecasters expected before. Enhanced is the third highest level of the five threat levels used by the National Storm Prediction Center to alert the public to potentially strong storms with destructive gusts of wind.
For the moment, the only weather alerts that are active in the Garden State are the heat opinions for four counties: Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer. These opinions are active until 8 p.m. Thursday, because the heat index – how hot it feels when the humidity is combined with air temperature – can reach 98 to 99 degrees.
In the Philadelphia metro region, it could feel as hot as 100 degrees this afternoon.
This is the severe thunderstorm risk scale used by the Storm Prediction Center. On Thursday, June 19, most of the New Jersey is at the “improved risk” orange level, and New York is in the “light risk” yellow.National Meteorological Service
Thursday will start with a mainly sunny sky before the storm clouds settled in the late afternoon, the forecasters said.
“The planned cutting -edge timing” of the storm activity is from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m., said the meteorological service forecast office in Mount Holly.
The New Jersey will probably see slightly lower temperatures and weaker humidity on Friday and Saturday before another stretch of intense heat is built on Sunday and continues in the middle of next week.
Air temperatures will hover in the 90s Thursday afternoon, but high humidity could make it as hot as the upper 90s in many regions of New Jersey.National Meteorological Service
Air temperatures could have a race for 100 degrees in certain parts of the state on Monday, and the heat index in many regions could reach a summit up to 100 to 105 degrees during the afternoon hours to Wednesday.
Current weather radar
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