One of the four confirmed tornadoes that struck New Jersey Saturday night was classified as a strong EF-2 twister packing top winds as high as 130 mph — and another was an EF-2 with winds up to 120 mph, the National Weather Service said Monday after analyzing the damage.
The stronger EF-2 tornado — the third of six intensity levels on the Enhanced Fujita scale used by the weather service to measure tornado strength — touched down in Jackson Township in Ocean County at 7:24 p.m. Saturday and remained on the ground for three minutes, swirling across a path 2.1 miles long, the weather service said in a preliminary storm report.And another one