Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Parsippany, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Boonton 1 SE, NJ, 2 miles northeast of Parsippany at 280 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 21°F. June is the wettest at 4.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.8 inches; the year adds up to 49.3 inches over 83 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (26.6 of 49.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 39 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (16); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 4.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 16 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 124 nights a year. That 49.3 inches is more than at 31 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (61%). Florham Park, 6 miles south, has its own station (Canoe Brook, NJ): 50.4 inches a year, 1.1 more than here, and a July average high of 86°F against 85°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station The Battery, NY, 24 miles southeast, averaged 74°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Bergen Point tide gauge, 21 miles from Parsippany, has risen 1.86 ± 0.13 inches per decade from 1981 to 2024, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 18.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 114 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 384 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Parsippany: 244 thunderstorm wind reports, 67 flash floods, 45 floods, 16 lightning strikes and 12 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 15, and the NWS estimated $16.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 76 mph, on April 19, 2002. August has had the most flash floods, 27 of 67. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 212 have had fewer than Parsippany.

Flood insurance policyholders in Parsippany's ZIP code 07054 have filed 158 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.8 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Irene in 2011: 52 claims (33% of all) and $3.2 million, then Flooding in 1984 with 13 and Not a named storm in 1979 with 12. 65% 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, 244 have fewer than Parsippany.