WORCESTER, Mass. — Friday marks 70 years since the most powerful tornado in Massachusetts and New England history tore a 48-mile path of destruction across the state, leaving 94 people dead and ...

WORCESTER - Friday is the 70th anniversary of the infamous Worcester tornado, the most destructive and deadly New England tornado in recorded history. The tornado formed in Petersham and was on ...

“In the Midwest you have tornado sirens; they didn’t have them in Worcester,” Conroy said. By 5 p.m., the dark, billowing column could be seen across Central Massachusetts, as William ...

A catastrophic F4 tornado carved a path of destruction through Central Massachusetts, colliding head on with Worcester on the evening of June 9, 1953.

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 Worcester tornado still ranks as one of the worst in U.S. history." ... there have been 190 tornadoes recorded in Massachusetts since 1951, including six in 2021, ...

WORCESTER, Mass. (WJAR) — While weak tornadoes do happen from time to time, no tornado in New England was as deadly as the one that struck the Worcester area 70 years ago. The date was Tuesday ...

The tornado that started in Petersham — barreling with peak intensity through Worcester, Holden and Shrewsbury — killed 94 people and left at least 10,000 homeless.

The National Weather Service this afternoon has issued a Tornado Watch for Worcester County and multiple other counties in the region until 8 p.m. this evening.

On Sunday afternoon, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued a Tornado Watch for more than 8 million people in parts of New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.