Storm Stories The Next Chapter

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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.

Credits

HOWARD SAPPINGTON
JONATHAN TOWERS
MICHAEL BRANTON
DAN TYRRELL
Daniel Ramos
KAREN GOECKEL
SARADA DUVVURI
SYLVETTA CHRISTMAS
STEVE SCHUMACHER
CHARLIE LANGRALL
CHRISTOPHER STAUDT
NATHAN ISEMINGER

S1E1: Twin Twisters / “Firenado”

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."

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S1E2: The Music Plays On / Hurricane Attacks Air Force Base

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.

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S1E3: Deadliest Mudslide / A November Tornado

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.

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S1E4: Harvey Hammers Houston / The Snow Bomb Cyclone of 2018

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.

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S1E5: Texas Flash Flood / Ten Seconds of Terror

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.

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S1E6: Tunnel Creek Avalanche / Mountain Myth Tornado

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.

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S1E7: Arkansas Flash Flood / Alabama Tornadoes

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.

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S1E8: The Great Nebraska Floods of 2019 / Cruise Ship from Hell

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.

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S2E1: Trapped In A Tree & Memorial Day Destruction

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.

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S2E2: Tale Of Two Mothers

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.

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