Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Stockton, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Lambertville, NJ, 5 miles south of Stockton at 68 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 42°F and 19°F. July is the wettest at 5.1 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.9 inches; the year adds up to 50.4 inches over 81 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (26.8 of 50.4 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 34 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (13); a normal September there has highs of 80°F and 4.4 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 30 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 136 nights a year. Snowfall averages 13.4 inches a year, most of it in January. That 50.4 inches is more than at 35 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (69%). Ringoes, 6 miles east, has its own station (Wertsville 4 NE, NJ): 51.1 inches a year, 0.7 more than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 88°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Newbold, PA, 24 miles southeast, 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, 36 miles from Stockton, 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 270 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Stockton: 194 thunderstorm wind reports, 38 flash floods, 22 floods, 8 heavy rain events and 8 lightning strikes. They killed 11 people and injured 21, and the NWS estimated $80.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on October 31, 2019. July has had the most flash floods, 14 of 38. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 136 have had fewer than Stockton.

Flood insurance policyholders in Stockton's ZIP code 08559 have filed 348 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1983, and were paid $10.7 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Ida in 2021: 40 claims (11% of all) and $1.5 million, then Torrential rain in 2005 with 27 and Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 26. The year with the most claims was 2005, with 88. 36% 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, 305 have fewer than Stockton.