Tornado, Etowah
- When
- June 22, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Etowah County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.2 mi
- Path width
- 77 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -85.930
Tornado and Hail in Alabama, June 22, 1977
1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Etowah
- When
- June 22, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Etowah County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -85.930
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 22, 1977
- Tornado in Wyoming, June 22, 1977
- Tornado in Florida, June 22, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 22, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 22, 1977
- Tornado in South Dakota, June 22, 1977
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 22, 1977
- Tornado in North Dakota, June 22, 1977
- Hail in Minnesota, June 22, 1977
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1977Every state in 1977This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 1977
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: 9977574, 9977575.