STORM STORIES features high-stakes first-person accounts of deadly weather and weather-related disasters over the past decade, and celebrates how these disasters inevitably bring out the very best in people: their bravery, ingenuity and compassion for one another. The terrifying weather events themselves are also major characters in each episode of this weekly, one-hour series. Whether the story is about a devastating tornado, hurricane, blizzard, flood, wildfire, or mudslide, STORM STORIES reminds us, through dramatic archival footage, computer-generated imagery and stylized reactions, how we are all at the mercy of Mother Nature.
A dog named Bella awakens her family just in time take cover as tornadoes hit Nashville in March 2020, but Bella goes missing…while a huge dust storm called a “haboob” engulfs Phoenix, AZ, causing a tree to crash right into an elderly woman’s bedroom. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
The mayor of a mountain village near Denver, Colorado tries desperately to rescue the small town’s patriarch from a flash flood…while in Albany, GA, a tornado slams the mobile home park where a young woman is attending her own baby shower. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
A couple and their four children are forced to abandon their pickup in the midst of ferocious floods outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana…while the parents of a 22-year-old daughter search for her in the rubble of a deadly tornado outbreak in southern Illinois. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
During halftime of a Cowboys-Eagles football game, a Dallas man heads out to get a pizza just as an EF-3 tornado barrels through the city…while a trauma nurse jumps into action as a rare Christmastime twister devastates a small town in Mississippi. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
During a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma, a young man races to save his autistic cousin, trapped in a house just as a twister is about to slam into it…while a former roadie for the Grateful Dead uses a garden hose to save his house from a raging California wildfire. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Two friends in Key West, Florida use Facebook Live to broadcast their harrowing experience aboard their boat during Hurricane Irma…while storm chasers capture rare footage of a deadly tornado in Mississippi on Easter Sunday, 2020. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Police body cam footage captures the rescue of a mother and her four young children from Tropical Storm Imelda near Houston…while a mother in a small town near Little Rock, Arkansas tries in vain to save all nine of her children from a monster EF-4 twister. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Amid raging floodwaters in West Virginia, a father and son try to save a woman from drowning, while they’re stranded in a tree…while in Dayton, Ohio, a very young storm chaser alerts the community to a tornado that the experts didn’t see coming. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Extreme flooding in Nebraska destroys a century-old dam, unleashing a wall of water that kills three people, including a Vietnam veteran, while firefighters, racing to rescue a family, are thrown into the raging currents on the Elkhorn River. And, when a cruise ship off the coast of Norway slams into a winter storm, a wave crashes into the ship, sweeping a woman away from her husband. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-no...
A flash flood at an Arkansas campsite flood leaves 20 dead, including 7 children. Two best friends are vacationing with their families when the flash floods strike. Both women survive but their husbands and children are swallowed up in the floodwaters. And, when a tornado pulverizes a tiny Alabama town, a doctor rescues a teenager girl who was left for dead. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
A group of 16 elite skiers and snowboarders on a back-country adventure in Washington state hear a 25-foot-high wall of snow thundering toward them. Someone yells “Avalanche!” Ski patrol soon confirm that three of the skiers are dead. And, the myth that a tornado can never strike in the mountains is exploded when a twister strikes a Kentucky town in the Appalachian foothills. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my...
A flash flood in the Texas Hill Country kills 13 people and destroys 350 homes. A father watches helplessly as his house is pulled down the river, and his wife and two children are tossed into the current. And, when a twister hits a small town in Mississippi, a family takes shelter in a diner’s walk-in cooler. When they emerge, the town is gone. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
As Hurricane Harvey hammers Houston, Texas, it becomes the most extreme rainfall event in US history. A local realtor heads out in his boat to rescue a woman and her family. And, in the midst of a violent winter storm, a harbormaster in a Massachusetts town is trying to tether a boat to the dock when he falls into the raging waters. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
A mudslide in Washington State, triggered by heavy rainfall, rips through a hillside community, killing 43 people. First-responders dig 15 feet through the mud, finding some survivors in homes next to dead loved ones. And, the strongest November tornado ever recorded in Illinois hits a small town, as a man races home to see if his children are alive amid the debris. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Record-setting floods devastate Nashville, Tennessee. A woman is rescued by a neighbor on a Jet Ski just before her house goes up in flames, while two teenagers, trapped in their Jeep, are carried away by the current. And, the US Air Force races to evacuate from Tyndall AFB when it’s right in the path of a monster hurricane called Michael. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Two powerful tornadoes take aim at a Nebraska farming community at the same time. Bank employees take cover in a vault, while a mother and her daughter are buried in the rubble. And, a super-rare but super-dangerous tornado of fire terrorizes a California town. It's a race against the clock to escape this colossal “firenado." See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
