Essex County Got Soaked: Rain Totals By Town; Flood Warning Still In Effect

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The National Weather Service issued a flood warning for Hudson, Essex, Union, Passaic, and Bergen counties until 11 a.m. Friday as more than an inch of rain fell across the region and caused local waterways to swell.

Livingston and the Caldwells seemed to get the most rain, according to spotter reports listed below.

The NWS said, "Some locations that will experience flooding include...Newark, Paterson, Elizabeth, Passaic, Wayne, Hoboken, Plainfield, Bloomfield, Hackensack, Linden, New City, Orange, Bergenfield, Paramus, Ridgewood, Summit, Lyndhurst, Millburn, Monsey and Rutherford."

"Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Streams continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall. It will take several hours for all the water from these storms to work through local drainage systems."

Rain Totals By Town

Here were the rain totals for different parts of Essex County, according to National Weather Service spotters, 2 and 3 a.m.:

• Bloomfield 2.27 inches
• Caldwell (SW) 3.24 inches
• Caldwell 2.86 inches
• West Caldwell 2.20 inches
• West Caldwell 2.65 inches
• Livingston 2.46 inches
• Fairfield 2.39 inches
• Montclair 1.98 inches
• Millburn (W) 1.84 inches
• Millburn 1.77 inches
• Orange Reservoir 0.84 inches
• West Orange 1.59 inches
• West Orange 2.17 inches
• Newark 1.32 inches
• Irvington 1.25 inches

Rain totals were not as high as the 7 inches or more that fell in North Jersey quickly during Tropical Depression Ida, but still a significant rainfall.

Friday is forecast to continue to be sunny.

• See the forecast for the Essex County area here.

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