Severe thunderstorms, hail, damaging winds expected in NJ; what to expect this week

On the heels of a convulsive outbreak of storms that turned lethal successful Pennsylvania Tuesday night, starring to the storm-related electrocution deaths of 2 people, New Jersey whitethorn beryllium successful for a walloping heading into the weekend.

A derecho, sometimes referred to arsenic inland hurricanes, tore done the Ohio Valley and Keystone State with upwind gusts successful excess of 90 mph, stronger than immoderate EF-0 and EF-1 tornadoes and crossed a overmuch wider area, forecasters said. The strategy had spawned tornadoes crossed the Midwest and dropped five-inch hail successful Texas earlier it marched eastbound — sparing New Jersey its wrath Tuesday evening.

Could it beryllium different repetition this weekend? A ample swath of "dangerous, damaging and disruptive thunderstorms" are erupting successful the cardinal states connected Wednesday, April 30, and are expected to caput eastbound by Friday.

Here's what to cognize astir the storm's timing, what the radar shows and what to expect successful New Jersey. Will it beryllium a play washout, and volition NJ get a derecho?

NJ weather: Severe storms, hail, winds Friday, Saturday

The hazard for terrible storms whitethorn interaction New Jersey connected Friday, May 2, with rainfall and thunderstorms processing crossed parts of the authorities by the greeting and into the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

Hail, downpours and localized damaging upwind gusts betwixt 55-65 mph are the superior concern, according to Accuweather.com, arsenic good arsenic section forecasts successful New Jersey.

Another menace for storms comes Saturday, May 3, with showers and thunderstorms apt by day and into the evening, forecasters say. Some showers are expected connected Sunday, with the imaginable for flooding rainfall connected Monday, babelike connected the way and velocity of a slow-moving tempest processing successful the South Central and Southwest states.

Live radar for New Jersey

Here's a unrecorded radar representation successful New Jersey from the National Weather Service. You tin cheque present arsenic unsettled upwind begins to caput our way.

Severe upwind alerts successful NJ

Check this unrecorded representation for upwind alerts and warnings issued successful New Jersey arsenic rainfall and storms make implicit the coming days.

What is simply a derecho? Here's what derecho upwind means

A derecho, which is Spanish for "straight," are long-lived lines of thunderstorms that tin nutrient lethal gusts of straight-line upwind harm successful excess of 58 mph implicit astatine slightest 400 miles successful length, according to AccuWeather.com.

Meteorologists classified a enactment of terrible thunderstorms that tore done the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania Tuesday evening arsenic the archetypal derecho of 2025, wherever straight-line upwind gusts reached 80 mph and tore disconnected roofs, uprooted trees, and chopped powerfulness to astatine slightest 700,000 people. The analyzable tempest was classified arsenic the archetypal derecho of 2025 successful the U.S. and led to the decease of 3 people.

Forecasters said the upwind phenomena could person been a "once-in-a-10-year oregon adjacent a once-in-a-20-year-event."

Lori Comstock is simply a New Jersey-based writer with the Mid-Atlantic Connect Team.

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