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Five Tornadoes Across NJ and NY, With Outlets Disagreeing on the Count
NWS survey teams fanned out across two states after a Tuesday night storm system. The hardest numbers are the winds; the hardest question is how many twisters actually touched down.
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- The number that matters most from Tuesday night's storm system is 110 — the peak wind speed, in miles per hour, that the National Weather Service measured in Roxbury Township, New Jersey, when an EF-1 tornado tore through the I-80 corridor. That single figure captures the scale of what residents from Morris County to Cape May lived through in roughly two hours of evening weather: trees toppled, roofs peeled, and a waterspout that came ashore at the Jersey shore and kept its spin long enough to count as a tornado.