Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Marlton, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Mt Holly S Jersey Airport, NJ, 6 miles northeast of Marlton 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 45 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%). Voorhees, 4 miles southwest, has its own station (Moorestown, NJ): 49.4 inches a year, 6.5 more than here, and a July average high of 88°F against 87°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Bridesburg, PA, 11 miles northwest, averaged 80°F in July and 38°F in February over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July. Sea level at the Philadelphia tide gauge, 13 miles from Marlton, 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 668 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Marlton: 550 thunderstorm wind reports, 57 flash floods, 36 floods, 13 lightning strikes and 12 heavy rain events. They killed 0 people and injured 12, and the NWS estimated $20.3 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 85 mph, on July 31, 2009. June has had the most flash floods, 23 of 57. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 198 have had fewer than Marlton.

Flood insurance policyholders in Marlton's ZIP code 08053 have filed 47 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $301,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2004, with 17. 15% 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, 140 have fewer than Marlton.