A Few Scary Moments for Some Huntsville Residents
Thursday afternoon, January 21, 2010, as a developing thunderstorm passed over Huntsville, the atmosphere was very dynamic with a shear environment that spun numerous t-storms in the Tennessee Valley into small, low-topped mesocyclones.
One of those storms laid a string of pea to baseball sized hail from western Lincoln County, TN to Fayetteville, TN. Shortly afterward, a storm that had developed over Decatur moved over Madison with a developing wall cloud, then a tornado that touched down in and around downtown and east Huntsville. The slide show below are images sent to WAAY-31 from viewers and news staff as they saw the event unfolding.
