Nebraska

Storms in Nebraska in 1953

49 events in 19 episodes

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

Nebraska 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

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The year

Events
49
Deaths
16
Injuries
103
Damage
$9.3 million
Episodes
19

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
Tornado4916103$9.3 million

Every episode, month by month

April 1953

May 1953

June 1953

July 1953

August 1953

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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.