Tornado, Shelby
- When
- February 21, 9:35 AM CST to 9:36 AM CST
- Where
- Shelby County, 2 mi NW of Maylene
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 33.220, -86.880
Tornado in Alabama, February 21, 1997
A small tornado occurred at the Brantleyville community about 2 miles northwest of Maylene in southwest Shelby County. The tornado track was very short with a number of trees downed and damage to several frame houses in the form on shingles off.
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
- $15,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BMX wrote it up.
A small tornado occurred at the Brantleyville community about 2 miles northwest of Maylene in southwest Shelby County. The tornado track was very short with a number of trees downed and damage to several frame houses in the form on shingles off. A tree fell on one house.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, February 21, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, February 21, 1997
More
Every storm in Alabama in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 1997Warnings in Alabama, February 1997
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: 5587852.