Oklahoma

Storms in Oklahoma in 1953

56 events in 24 episodes

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

Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma

The year

Events
56
Deaths
5
Injuries
45
Damage
$1.3 million
Episodes
24

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
Tornado56545$1.3 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1953

March 1953

April 1953

May 1953

June 1953

July 1953

August 1953

November 1953

December 1953

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Every year in OklahomaEvery state in 1953Tornadoes in Oklahoma 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.