Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Moorestown, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Moorestown, NJ, 2 miles southwest of Moorestown at 45 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 67°F; January is the coolest, at 43°F and 26°F. July is the wettest at 5.4 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.7 inches; the year adds up to 49.4 inches over 80 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (26.3 of 49.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 43 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (16); a normal September there has highs of 80°F and 4.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 45 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 102 nights a year. That 49.4 inches is more than at 32 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (63%). Mount Laurel, 3 miles southeast, has its own station (Mt Holly S Jersey Airport, NJ): 42.9 inches a year, 6.5 less than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 88°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Bridesburg, PA, 7 miles west, 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, 11 miles from Moorestown, 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 1,014 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Moorestown: 726 thunderstorm wind reports, 176 flash floods, 79 floods, 19 lightning strikes and 14 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 24, and the NWS estimated $112.0 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 94 mph, on June 18, 2000. July has had the most flash floods, 58 of 176. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 315 have had fewer than Moorestown.

Flood insurance policyholders in Moorestown's ZIP code 08057 have filed 45 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $97,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2011, with 10. 38% 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, 137 have fewer than Moorestown.