On average, three to five tornadoes touch down in Massachusetts each year ... tornado to ever hit New England was the Worcester tornado on June 9, 1953. A total of 94 people were killed ...

IN the late afternoon of June 9, 1953, a tornado unexpectedly struck a section of Worcester County, Massachusetts, and in about twenty minutes created a major disaster. The problems that arose as ...

LATE in the afternoon of June 9, 1953, Worcester was bringing to a close ... nature wrapped all its fury into one cataclysmic vortex. A tornado was born. Like . . . Dr. Ward and I are indebted ...