They played their home games at Von Braun Center Arena in downtown Huntsville.

Following the 1999 championship win the team was sold to a Boaz, Alabama, businessman, John Cherney.

[4] Many fans took offense to the new name that referenced a tornado that struck South Huntsville in 1989, killing 21 people.

Cherney had also threatened to move the team to Madison, a suburb of Huntsville, if he did not get the dates he wanted, to no avail.

After the formation of the league, he asked the Huntsville hockey community if he would re-establish a team what name they would like to see play, the Tornado or Channel Cats.