Power Outage in Barnegat, NJ

The same supercell which produced a tornado in the New Jersey |Pine Barrens cycled and produced another tornado in far eastern |Ocean County. The tornado touched down near the immediate western |shore of Barnegat Bay. At least one building near Bay Beach off |Bayshore Dr sustained roofing damage. The tornado then moved over |Barnegat Bay as a waterspout. It came ashore in the area of High |Bar Harbor in Long Beach Twp.||The most severe damage was noted to a house on the corner of |Antioch Rd and Arnold Blvd. This house was facing west-southwest, |and had its entire roof structure lifted off and tossed one to two|houses to the east. The house walls remained standing but most of|the doors and windows on the east and west sides of the house |were completely blown out, with significant damage to the inside |of the house. A two- by-four from an adjacent house impaled the |wall on the west side of the house. Eight people were in the house|at the time the tornado hit, but they were able to take shelter |in an interior closet, with only minor injuries sustained. In |addition, on the north side of the house, a car in the driveway |was pushed sideways several feet and their boat flipped into their|neighbor's boat. The boat's trailer was tossed about 50 feet into|a house just to the east. The degree and orientation of damage |was consistent with tornadic winds of 115 to 120 mph, which is EF2|intensity.||Continuing east-northeast, about a dozen homes on the south side |of Arnold Blvd sustained significant uplift of roof material, |siding damage or removal, collapse of porch, patio, and sunroom |structures, and blown out windows. Several large trees were |uprooted and lay pointing to the east-northeast, as well as downed|power poles. ||The tornado moved east or slightly north of east from Arnold |Blvd, over an open salt marsh, before intersecting a few houses on|the corner of Collier Rd and Sunset Blvd. The most significant |damage was to a house on the northwest corner of Collier and |Sunset, which sustained siding damage, partial roof removal, |blowout of the storm surge walls on the basement level of the |elevated structure, and a large tree uprooted and laying to the |east-northeast. Power poles and large trees were downed on Sunset |Blvd, adjacent to the High Bar Harbor Yacht Club. There was damage|to several boats in the yacht club marina, but this was mainly |due to lofted debris being tossed into the marina. The circulation|then moved into the cove east of the marina. However, no further |significant damage was noted on the east side of the cover in |Barnegat Light, indicating the tornado had likely lifted. This is |corroborated by radar data which showed a weakening of the |circulation and a likely dissipation before it crossed into the |open Atlantic.

Several reports of power lines down in Barnegat Township. Time estimated from radar.

A severe thunderstorm knocked down power lines and large tree limbs in Barnegat. About 5,000 JCP&L customers lost power.