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Deadline to Disaster
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Deadline to Disaster is a documentary program on The Weather Channel that premiered on May 3, 2020.[1] In this series, eyewitnesses capture the full fury of extreme weather on camera. (e.g. Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Flash Floods) The third season premieres on November 19, 2022.
| Deadline to Disaster | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 17 |
| Production | |
| Production company | Weather Group |
| Release | |
| Original network | The Weather Channel |
| Original release | May 3, 2020 – present |
Episodes Edit
| No. | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Capital Catastrophe" | May 3, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||
| 2 | "Mayhem on Main Street" | May 9, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||
| 3 | "Cat 5 Emergency" | May 17, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||
| 4 | "Horror in the Heartland" | May 24, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||
| 5 | "Surviving Katrina's surge" | May 31, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||
| 6 | "Holiday Hell" | June 14, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||
| 7 | "Gulf of Mexico Monster" | September 6, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||
| 8 | "Tornado Terror in Texas" | September 27, 2020 | |
| 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. | |||