This series reveals recent natural disasters as they happened in real-time through footage captured by eyewitnesses who found themselves in the wrong place at the right time and boldly held up their camera phones to capture the eye of the storm.
In mid-May 2025, hundreds of eyewitnesses capture the terrifying power of severe weather as supercell thunderstorms unleash dozens of powerful tornadoes, tossing vehicles across motorways and destroying neighbourhoods and workplaces in eleven states.
As Hurricane Idalia makes landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast, evacuation holdouts face a 12-foot storm surge and 125 mph winds. The once-in-a-generation storm devastates inland structures and overturns rush-hour traffic 350 miles away in Charleston, SC.
When a rare EF-3 tornado touches down in northern Michigan, cameras capture the chaos and disbelief as the twister's 150 mph winds disintegrate shopping centers, toss vehicles and carve a path of utter destruction through a city that never saw it coming.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas with 130 mph winds and record-breaking rain, cameras captured catastrophic flooding as entire neighborhoods vanished, forcing civilians to risk their own lives to save others in one of the costliest disasters in US history.
Eyewitnesses capture severe weather across the Dakotas as tornadoes tear through neighborhoods and farm structures. Near Enderlin, ND, a violent twister with estimated winds exceeding 200 mph becomes the first U.S. tornado rated EF5 in more than 12 years.
When a freak storm unleashes a tornado and a year's worth of rainfall on the city of Valencia, Spain, stunned eyewitnesses capture catastrophic flooding in the urban center as bridges buckle, cars are swept away, and residents fight for their lives.
