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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 premiered on November 19, 2022. It is unknown if new episodes will be released.
| Deadline to Disaster | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Production company | Weather Group |
| Original release | |
| Network | The Weather Channel |
| Release | May 3, 2020 – December 24, 2022 |
Episodes
edit| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Capital Catastrophe" | May 3, 2020 | |
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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 | 2 | "Mayhem on Main Street" | May 9, 2020 | |
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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 | 3 | "Cat 5 Emergency" | May 17, 2020 | |
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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 | 4 | "Horror in the Heartland" | May 24, 2020 | |
| 5 | 5 | "Surviving Katrina's surge" | May 31, 2020 | |
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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 | 6 | "Holiday Hell" | June 14, 2020 | |
| 7 | 7 | "Gulf of Mexico Monster" | September 6, 2020 | |
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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 | 8 | "Tornado Terror in Texas" | September 27, 2020 | |
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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. | ||||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | "Blown Away" | May 23, 2021 |
| 10 | 2 | "Mega Fires" | May 30, 2021 |
| 11 | 3 | "Hurricane Hell" | June 6, 2021 |
| 12 | 4 | "Music City Mayhem" | June 13, 2021 |
| 13 | 5 | "Downtown Destruction" | June 20, 2021 |
| 14 | 6 | "Twister Terror" | June 27, 2021 |
| 15 | 7 | "Battered on the Bayou" | July 11, 2021 |
| 16 | 8 | "Sally's Surge" | July 18, 2021 |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | "Wall of Water" | November 19, 2022 |
| 18 | 2 | "Texas Tornado Terror" | November 26, 2022 |
| 19 | 3 | "Danger Deja Vu" | December 3, 2022 |
| 20 | 4 | "Cross-Country Catastrophe" | December 10, 2022 |
| 21 | 5 | "Windstorm Wildfire" | December 17, 2022 |
| 22 | 6 | "Hurricane Ian" | December 24, 2022 |