Deadline to Disaster

Unseasonably warm weather in Canada triggers six tornadoes in a matter of hours, including an EF3 tornado that tears through a strip mall terrorizing a teenager and his mother who is impaled by flying glass; the same tornado along with an additional EF2 tornado cuts a path of destruction through Ottawa.

Memorial Day weekend 2018, almost 10 inches of rain in two hours sends a monster wave of water through downtown Ellicott City, MD; it traps tourists and business owners, sweeps vehicles away and collapses buildings.

Category 5 Dorian becomes the strongest hurricane to hit the Bahamas; as storm surge pours into his home, a family wades through chest deep water in a quest to find higher ground; locals on jet skis rescue neighbors from flooded homes.

An unexpected tornado outbreak erupts over central Iowa on July 19, 2018; two EF2 tornado strike Bondurant, a large EF3 tornado makes a direct hit on a Vermeer plant complex filled with hundreds of workers and guests in Pella, and another EF3 tornado tears directly down Marshalltown's main street.

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina's massive 28.5 foot storm surge batters the Mississippi coastline obliterating beachfront property; in Waveland, a father and son forced to flee their home by boat, find themselves rescuing neighbors from the storm surge.

On the day after Christmas 2015, 13 tornadoes hit the Dallas area; as an EF4 tornado rips through more populated areas, families that were hunkered down emerge to see their neighborhoods; amateur storm trackers go house to house helping victims.

As Hurricane Michael fury peaks, deadly flying projectiles force a storm tracker and his team to ride out the eyewall in their car; Panama City News Herald employees hunker down at a building housing their printing press.

During a three-hour onslaught, the small town of Canton is caught in the crosshairs of two large and deadly tornadoes; the first reached EF4 intensity while the second was rated EF3.