Tornado, Essex
- When
- July 1, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Essex County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 42.900, -70.800
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, July 1, 1968
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Essex
- When
- July 1, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Essex County
- Coordinates
- 42.580, -70.900
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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Maine, July 1, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 1, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 1, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 1, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 1, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 1, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, July 1, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, July 1, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 1, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 1, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 1, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 1, 1968
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: 10040114, 10040115.