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1953 Worcester tornado. 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.
The Worcester Tornadoes were a professional baseball team based in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States. The Tornadoes were a member of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball, an independent baseball league which was not affiliated with Major League Baseball. The Tornadoes played their home games at Hanover ...
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. [nb 1][nb 2] These ...
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 ...
“It’s kind of like a tornado that sucks you in,” said Angelo Padin, a 2007 North High grad and videographer for the team. “Once you see these boys and see the way that they play, it’s ...
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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 ...
The 2011 New England Tornado Outbreak was a tornado outbreak on June 1, 2011 that impacted the states of Massachusetts and Maine in New England. A total of six tornadoes touched down in both western Massachusetts and western Maine. The strongest, often referred to as the Springfield Tornado, was a long-track, high-end EF3 tornado that caused ...