EF-1 Tornado Collapses Barn, Damages School in Chesterfield, New Jersey

An EF-1 tornado tore through Chesterfield Township, New Jersey, at 4 p.m. EST on Nov. 12, 2026. It collapsed the external walls of a barn and tore part of the roof off a school along its 1.5-mile path, a corrected damage survey by the National Weather Service's Mount Holly, New Jersey, office found. The tornado's peak wind reached 100 mph, with a path up to 100 yards wide, and no injuries or deaths were reported, the survey said.

The survey also counted damage to several other homes along the path. At one residence, part of the roof was lifted and blown into neighboring yards, driving wood beams into the ground and lodging one in a neighboring house's soffit; other homes nearby lost fascia boards and roof shingles. Near the school, farm equipment was overturned, and large tree branches snapped off at a home just beyond it, the survey said.