Multiple Tornado Warnings Issued Across Northeastern U.S.

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning for parts of New Jersey as a line of intense thunderstorms hit the state Friday afternoon, urging residents in the affected areas to seek immediate shelter inside a sturdy building. The tornado warning was issued at 12:55 p.m. Friday, effective until 1:30 p.m., for Burlington and Ocean counties. No tornadoes have been confirmed on the ground so far, but officials in Pemberton in Burlington County received “several reports of a sighted funnel cloud in the vicinity of Country Lakes.”