Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Port Norris, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Millville Municipal Airport, NJ, 8 miles north of Port Norris at 70 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 66°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 24°F. August is the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 43.4 inches over 72 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (23.0 of 43.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 53 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (20); a normal September there has highs of 78°F and 3.2 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 22 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 108 nights a year. That 43.4 inches is more than at 4 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (8%). Woodbine, 14 miles east, has its own station (Estell Manor, NJ): 50.4 inches a year, 7.0 more than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Cape May, NJ, 21 miles south, averaged 75°F in August and 40°F in January over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Cape May tide gauge, 21 miles from Port Norris, has risen 2.01 ± 0.09 inches per decade from 1965 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 20.1 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 120 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 91 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Port Norris: 64 thunderstorm wind reports, 17 heavy rain events, 7 floods and 3 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $30.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 89 mph, on August 27, 2003.

Flood insurance policyholders in Port Norris's ZIP code 08349 have filed 28 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $600,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Sandy in 2012: 17 claims (61% of all) and $377,000. 64% 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, 81 have fewer than Port Norris.