Season 2

2019 · 13 episodes

Episodes

1Episode 1A record-breaking twister rips through Alabama. In South Africa, a violent storm with near-hurricane winds breaks the mooring lines of super-tankers.
2Hurricane HarveyHurricane Harvey, one of the most powerful hurricanes to strike the United States, rips a coastal town apart and dumps a once-in-a-thousand-years rainfall that drowns the city of Houston.
3Episode 3Two devastating earthquakes hit Mexico in quick succession; an Australian storm chaser becomes trapped in the middle of the most powerful tornado ever recorded in El Reno, Oklahoma.
4Largest Lava LakeA rare tornado decimates a small town in rural Uruguay, snaring a man in his car and obliterating a huge warehouse.
5Episode 5In South Africa, the Cape is struck by both a violent storm and catastrophic wildfires that overwhelm the emergency services.
6Glacier FloodA student chronicles 2017's Hurricane Maria as it decimates Puerto Rico. A hailstorm destroys a Dallas family home. A wilderness hiker clings on for dear life in a flash flood.
7Episode 7North California is besieged by a spate of raging wildfires. In Costa Rica, a tourist pleasure boat capsizes and in North Carolina, a tornado hits a superstore packed with shoppers.
8Montecito MudflowsDevastating mudflows flatten the Californian coastal community of Montecito; a sudden flash flood sweeps up an inexperienced kayaker in South Africa.
9Avalanche RescueA bomb cyclone detonates across northeast America, snaring an elderly Michigan couple in a mass freeway pile-up. A hiker loses her nerve high on Ben Nevis.
10National Park FireTennessee's Great Smoky Mountains live up to their name as America's most popular national park goes up in flames. Meanwhile a mega typhoon pulverises Macao.
11Episode 11The worst earthquake in almost a century strikes Ecuador. Meanwhile, Indiana suffers one of its worst ever tragedies as a storm blows down the main stage during a festival.
12Episode 12Irma, a category five hurricane, devastates the Caribbean. In Fiji, a carer battles catastrophic floods to reach children at an orphanage.
13Episode 13Heatwave Lucifer burns though Europe, triggering some of the worst wildfires in Portugal's history, while a Mojave mudslide traps motorists in a raging torrent of sludge.