Event narrative (NOAA)
The combination of flooding rains and tropical storm force wind gusts closed thirty-five roadways and about fifteen bridges in Ocean County including parts of New Jersey State Routes 33, 35, 36 and 79 and U.S. Route 9. Plumsted Township was hit hard as flooding divided the township in half as the Crosswicks Creek flooded. Three families were stranded after a roadway was washed away. Neighboring Jackson Township had eight bridges and culverts washed out. In the eastern part of the county, Toms River flooded.||The North Branch of the Metedeconk River at Lakewood had major and record breaking flooding. It was above its 7 foot flood stage from 1120 p.m. EDT on the 27th through 707 a.m. EDT on the 30th. It crested at 11.40 feet at 515 p.m. EDT on the 28th. Event rainfall totals included 9.10
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.