Tornado, Haywood
- When
- March 14, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Haywood County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 24.8 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 8 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.470, -89.450
Tornadoes in Tennessee, March 14, 1953
7 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
- 14
- Property damage
- $175,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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
7 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Chester
- When
- March 14, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Chester County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 18.9 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.370, -88.780
Tornado, Henderson
- When
- March 14, 6:18 PM CST
- Where
- Henderson County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 5.1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.520, -88.500
Tornado, Dyer
- When
- March 14, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dyer County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.080, -89.380
Tornado, Lauderdale
- When
- March 14, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lauderdale County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.750, -89.530
Tornado, Madison
- When
- March 14, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 24.7 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.530, -88.970
Tornado, Weakley
- When
- March 14, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Weakley County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 600 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.330, -88.770
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.
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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: 10126270, 10126271, 10126272, 10126273, 10126274, 10126275, 10126276.