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The 1953 Worcester tornado was an extremely powerful and destructive tornado that struck the city of Worcester, Massachusetts and surrounding areas on Tuesday, June 9, 1953, the final day of the Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence. It stayed on the ground for 48 miles (77 km) and 78 minutes.
An extremely devastating and deadly tornado outbreak sequence impacted the Midwestern and Northeastern United States at the beginning of June 1953. It included two tornadoes that caused at least 90 deaths each—an F5 tornado occurring in Flint, Michigan, on June 8 and an F4 tornado in Worcester, Massachusetts, on June 9.
The words "Worcester Tornadoes" were arched inside of the ring in beige in scripted, capital letters. An orange and black tornado wrapped around a baseball bat in the middle of the logo, with a white "W" superimposed over the center, with black outline. The Tornadoes uniforms incorporated traditional baseball design.
The Worcester tornado of 1953. The worst tornado on record in Massachusetts was June 9, 1953, when a tornado that was a mile wide ripped through Worcester and the surrounding area, lasting nearly ...
The 1953 Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak, which included the incredibly deadly Flint-Beecher tornado, produced seven tornadoes in northern Ohio. Henry, Wood, Sandusky, Erie, Lorain and Cuyahoga ...
The Worcester Tornado killed as many as 94 people in Worcester, Massachusetts, on June 9, 1953, and the Wallingford Tornado killed as many as 34 in Wallingford, Connecticut, on August 8, 1878. These two tornadoes, both estimated to be of F4 intensity on the Fujita scale, killed more people than the rest of the tornadoes in the region's recorded ...
Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: June 7–9, 1953: Central Great Plains – Great Lakes – New England: 50: 247 fatalities, 2,562 injuries: Numerous tornadoes struck the Great Plains and Midwestern United States. The Flint-Beecher F5 tornado produced the last 100+ death toll for a single tornado in US history until the 2011 Joplin ...
The heavy rain on Sunday also sent treated and untreated sewage into the Blackstone River in Worcester. 'Never seen a rotation like that': North Brookfield fire chief marvels at tornado's power ...