January 21, 2010 Tornado - First Reports WHNT

WHNT's Dan Satterfield reports the January 21, 2010, tornado as it touches down near Five Points in Huntsville.

Around the 2:32 mark, you see transformers in the area starting to explode as the tornado touches the ground.

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[ssamantha20080]

i love dan =)

[aj637145]

Tornados Are affective in Winrter Only Blizzards

[csx2295]

@JamesBarcus30 Here you all had a tornado in Huntsville the month after the tornado we had 18 inches of snow on the ground in Brownsville, Tennessee in February 2010 this weather is always screwed up.

[troutslayer52101]

What gets me is on EVERY video of a live news broadcast, the reporters have to keep calling to the "tower cam operator" to 'please zoom out a bit and pan to the left......Can you PLEASE PAN TO THE LEFT AND ZOOM OUT A BIT???!'  and then maybe 15 seconds later, the operator 'FINALLY' zooms out just enough to see and moves just a little. My problem is, If I were on that joystick for the cam, I'd be ALL OVER THAT THING! No one would need to tell me squat! Those people need 2 b fired is all!!!!!

[ILovestorms]

This tornado was a high-based one, not much surface-based instability that day.

[deangelomywayentfans]

I Used To Watch Dan Satterfield On Channel 6 back in the 90's

[JamesBarcus30]

Radar senses storms above the ground, but there is no other factor that can give ground truth to storms than having either a towercam aimed toward the storm and the ground or a good set of eyes on the ground safely tracking the storm on the ground. Applause should go to the technicians who installed this towercam on the Saturn V Rocket at the Space and Rocket Center...

[basenjilover]

i like how its allmost like time lapse esspicaly when u watch it backwords. never sen what looks like the middle section of a torando form like that its amazeing

[dancindrumsticks08]

I was in the middle of statistics class when that thing went through. Had I known that the night would be filled with incredible weather, I would have skipped class and filmed but I didn't have my camera with me.