Using a 20 cm focal length lens, a 1 kHz, 800nm, 2 mJ/pulse laser beam was focused into a cloud chamber with a cold plate at -19C at the bottom and a compartment containing wet towels sitting on a perforated plate at the top. The temperature in the wet compartment was 19C. Filaments were generated at a height of about 1 cm above the cold plate where the relative humidity was about 70% (sub-saturated) and temperature about 4C. Turbulence was created throughout the chamber. In particular, two vortex ‘tubes’ were formed below the filament zone right above the cold plate, in agreement with simulation. Precipitation in the form of snow/ice was found below the filament. We believe that precipitation occurred in the super-saturated environment inside the vortex ‘tubes’. The latter was continually fed by the moisture and condensation nuclei such as HNO3, dust particles, etc. which were pushed from above by the turbulence. At the same time, large sized precipitates would be spun out of the vortices leaving behind room for further super-saturation and precipitation.