Tornado, Franklin
- When
- May 20, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 42.400, -72.600
Tornadoes in Massachusetts, May 20, 1963
4 tornado, 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
- $78,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Worcester
- When
- May 20, 2:10 PM CST
- Where
- Worcester County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3.8 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 42.300, -72.200
Tornado, Worcester
- When
- May 20, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Worcester County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 42.400, -71.700
Tornado, Worcester
- When
- May 20, 2:55 PM CST
- Where
- Worcester County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 42.400, -71.600
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, May 20, 1963
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 20, 1963
- Tornado and Hail in North Carolina, May 20, 1963
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, May 20, 1963
- Damaging Winds in Maine, May 20, 1963
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, May 20, 1963
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, May 20, 1963
- Damaging Wind in Connecticut, May 20, 1963
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: 10040390, 10040391, 10041240, 10041241.