2.0 NW Fairview - 1.5 NNW Plevna A tornado with winds of 95 mph touched down along Borderline Road between Evertt Jones and Greenville Pike Road near the Tennessee State Line. As the tornado tracked eastward, it demolished a well built shed, significantly damaged several barns, and snapped and uprooted numerous trees. The worst damage occurred from BH Reeves Road eastward to Vanntown School Road. Here, multiple sheds were demolished or had roofs removed, numerous trees were snapped and uprooted, and a mobile home had its roof peeled off. The tornado lifted just west of School House Road. Start: 34.9900/-86.5048 End: 34.9900/-86.4308

NWS EF Scale: F1

An EF1 tornado with winds of 95 mph touched down along Borderline road between Evertt Jones and Greenville Pike road, immediately south of the Tennessee state line. As the tornado tracked eastward, it demolished a well built shed, significantly damaged several barns, and snapped and uprooted numerous trees. The worst damage occurred frm BH Reeves road eastward to Vanntown School road. Here, multiple sheds were demolished or had roofs removed, numerous trees were snapped and uprooted, and a mobile home had its roof peeled off. The tornado lifted just west of School House road.

A powerful cold front and upper level system combined with a weakly unstable, moist and highly sheared environment to produce severe thunderstorms and a tornado. A quasi-linear convective system (QLCS) developed during the morning hours across the mid South and raced eastward at 50 to 60 mph. The storms arrived in northwest Alabama during the mid morning, weakened, then reintensified during the midday hours in north central Alabama. The storms continued tracking east and exited the state by late afternoon. One of the storms produced an EF-1 tornado that tracked near the Tennessee state line in Madison County. Other storms produced wind damage and large hail reports.

Part of 5-tornado outbreak on February 28, 2011