Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Union City, NJ

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is New York Cntrl Pk Twr, NY, 3 miles east of Union City at 130 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 85°F and low of 70°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 28°F. July and August are the wettest at 4.6 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.2 inches; the year adds up to 49.6 inches over 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 52% of the year's precipitation (26.0 of 49.6 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 46 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (21); a normal September there has highs of 76°F and 4.3 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 17 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 67 nights a year. Snowfall averages 29.8 inches a year, most of it in February. That 49.6 inches is more than at 34 of the 51 New Jersey stations used on this site (67%). Secaucus, 2 miles northwest, has its own station (Teterboro Airport, NJ): 46.4 inches a year, 3.2 less than here, and a July average high of 87°F against 85°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station The Battery, NY, 5 miles south, averaged 74°F in August and 39°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the The Battery tide gauge, 5 miles from Union City, has risen 1.16 ± 0.02 inches per decade from 1856 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 11.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 66 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 914 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Union City: 402 flash floods, 396 thunderstorm wind reports, 89 floods, 24 lightning strikes and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 23 people and injured 44, and the NWS estimated $370.7 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 104 mph, on June 10, 2008. July has had the most flash floods, 131 of 402. Of the 455 New Jersey cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 437 have had fewer than Union City.

Flood insurance policyholders in Union City's ZIP code 07087 have filed 17 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $1.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 82% 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, 44 have fewer than Union City.