Tornado, Franklin
- When
- July 11, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 42.580, -72.500
Tornadoes and Hail in Massachusetts, July 11, 1958
4 tornado, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $255,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Worcester
- When
- July 11, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Worcester County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 133 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 42.420, -72.200
Tornado, Worcester
- When
- July 11, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Worcester County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 42.420, -72.200
Tornado, Middlesex
- When
- July 11, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Middlesex County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -71.300
Hail, Middlesex
- When
- July 11, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Middlesex County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -71.280
Hail, Middlesex
- When
- July 11, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Middlesex County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.500, -71.280
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornadoes in Ohio, July 11, 1958
- Tornado in Nebraska, July 11, 1958
- Tornado in Maine, July 11, 1958
- Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 11, 1958
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 11, 1958
- Hail in Colorado, July 11, 1958
- Hail in New Mexico, July 11, 1958
- Tornado in Oklahoma, July 11, 1958
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10040113, 10040323, 10040324, 10040325, 10040326, 10040327.