Missouri

Storms in Missouri in 1953

6 events in 5 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Missouri in 1953, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Missouri in 1953 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Missouri

The year

Events
6
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$58,000
Episodes
5

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado601$58,000

Every episode, month by month

March 1953

May 1953

August 1953

More

Every year in MissouriEvery state in 1953Tornadoes in Missouri in 195319521954

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.