Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Lumberton, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mt Holly S Jersey Airport, NJ, 2 miles southwest of Lumberton at 53 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 87°F and low of 66°F; January is the coolest, at 41°F and 25°F. July is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 42.9 inches over 72 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (23.4 of 42.9 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 46 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (18); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 3.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 25 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 99 nights a year. That 42.9 inches is more than at 3 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (6%). Westampton, 2 miles north, has its own station (Philadelphia/Mt Holly WFO, NJ): 46.0 inches a year, 3.1 more than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Burlington, Delaware River, NJ, 9 miles northwest, averaged 80°F in July and 37°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July. Sea level at the Philadelphia tide gauge, 18 miles from Lumberton, has risen 1.24 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1900 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 73 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 592 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Lumberton: 470 thunderstorm wind reports, 54 flash floods, 34 floods, 19 lightning strikes and 15 heavy rain events. They killed 2 people and injured 13, and the NWS estimated $17.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 85 mph, on July 31, 2009. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 192 have had fewer than Lumberton.

Flood insurance policyholders in Lumberton's ZIP code 08048 have filed 203 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $7.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from April 2007 Nor'easter in 2007: 44 claims (22% of all) and $1.6 million, then Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 37 and Mid-spring storms in 2014 with 22. 54% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 395 New Jersey cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 264 have fewer than Lumberton.