This tornado was the first of 4 tornadoes that occurred on April 23, 1953. This tornado struck in southern Okmulgee County west of Bryant at 3:31 pm CST. One person was killed as the tornado demolished buildings on a dairy farm west of Bryant, OK, and 4 people were injured as the school bus in in which they were riding was rolled several times.

This tornado touched down and moved northeastward along a short path through the small community of Hoffman, OK. The twister destroyed  25 homes and buildings in a residential section of the town, and damaged another 50 structures. Two people were killed and 16 people were injured in some of the demolished homes.

A parent supercell thunderstorm produced a series of tornadoes from Stratford to Konawa to Wewoka through areas in Okfuskee and Okmulgee counties. The first tornado hit Stratford where considerable damage occurred to 50 homes and several businesses. One person was injured by flying debris in Stratford.

The next report of a tornado occurred in Seminole County at Konawa where the tornado moved northeastward and cut a 3-blick-wide path of destruction through across the city and through the main business district. About 150 homes and 40 businesses were destroyed or damaged. Seven people were injured in Konawa.

The same tornado or possibly a new tornado skipped and only produced spotty damage until it reached Wewoka where about 75 houses were damaged in a path the was 2.5 blocks wide and 11 blocks long. Several farmstead were damaged and two people were injured when their car was picked up off OK State Highway 9 about 6 miles west of Wetumka.

More tornadic damage was evident as several farmsteads, homes, and utility lines were damaged southeast of Pharoah in Okfuskee County and northwest of Henryetta in Okmulgee County, where 1 injury was reported. The last tornado in the series lifted south of Schulter in Okmulgee County.

A long track tornado began 2 mile south-southeast of Little, OK in Seminole County and moved northeast into Okfuskee County. The tornado passed north of Okemah at about 7:35 pm, finally dissipating at the west edge of Lake Okmulgee in Okmulgee County. Damage occurred to houses, trailer houses, outbuildings, livestock, cars, a church, trees, and other vegetation. Softball size hail accompanied the storm.

A large, wide tornado touched down 11.5 miles southwest of Morris, OK and moved northeast through Morris before it dissipated 10 miles northeast of this community of 1,400 residents. Extensive damage occurred along the path of the storm, and the tornado virtually destroyed a 28-square-block area of Morris including the entire business district and hundreds of homes. Approximately 70% of the town received some form of damage.  

The storm killed 8 people in Okmulgee County and another 95 people were injured. Damage was estimated at $9 million for the county and the town of Morris. Damage was estimated at $9 million for the county and the town of Morris.

Oklahoma's worst-ever October tornado outbreak took place on the evening of October 4th. A total of 26 tornadoes occurred throughout Oklahoma, of which 7 were in northeastern Oklahoma. This outbreak of severe weather resulted as a powerful, upper-level storm system moved across the central plains and surface low pressure developed over southwestern Oklahoma. Warm humid air quickly invaded the area on the morning of October 4th and then collided with a cold front moving southward by evening. The threat from these storms ran the full range of possibilities from destructive tornadoes to damaging winds to very large hail up to the size of baseballs.

A significant, long-track tornado occurred on the evening of October 4th, following a 27-mile track from 2 miles southeast of Boley in Okfuskee County to 3 miles southwest of Nuyaka in Okmulgee County. The tornado first touched down in Okfuskee County at 9:37 pm CST and lifted over Okmulgee County at 10:08 pm CST. The most significant damage to structures occurred near the communities of IXL and Haydenville, while much of the damage in the rural areas across which the tornado tracked consisted of downed/uprooted trees.

In the small community of IXL, located on OK State Highway 48 north of Okemah, nearly every structure sustained at least some damage. An NWS Storm Survey revealed F2 damage at IXL, where a house and two mobile homes were destroyed. Pieces of one mobile home were found one-half mile away. A local newspaper also reported four businesses and a public building at the IXL Park were destroyed. Six houses and two more mobile homes sustained major damage, while another 21 houses and one mobile home sustained minor damage.

In Haydenville, located north of Okemah on OK State Highway 56, two single-family houses and a mobile home were destroyed. Three houses, three mobile homes, and one public building (the Haydenville Fire Station) sustained major damage. Five houses and one business (the Haydenville Store) sustained minor damage. An NWS Storm Survey revealed F2 damage just southwest of Haydenville, where a mobile home was completely destroyed. Four people inside the trailer were injured, one of them critically. The tie-downs on the double-wide trailer were snapped, and the home appeared to have travelled a significant distance before disintegrating.

The tornado continued into Okmulgee County from Okfuskee County, but only produced F0 damage in the form of numerous trees downed/uprooted along its path. When all was said and done, this tornado tracked 27 miles from 2 miles southeast of Boley to 3 miles southwest of Nuyaka, and it injured four people in Okfuskee County. This tornado was unusual for the fact that it covered such a large area. A survey showed that the damage path was at times 3 miles wide, lending credence to the idea that there were several smaller tornadoes circulating around the larger tornado. The larger tornado reached as wide as 8/10 of a mile.