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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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.
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0–9. Tornado outbreak sequence of April 28 – May 2, 1953. 1953 Waco tornado outbreak. Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence. 1953 Flint–Beecher tornado. Tornado outbreak of March 12–15, 1953. Tornado outbreak of May 29, 1953. Tornado outbreak of June 27, 1953. Tornado outbreak sequence of December 1–6, 1953.