A horrifying tornado rips through Missouri, wiping out 200 houses a minute. Elsewhere, one man's underwater debacle results in a remarkable rescue. A look at eyewitness footage that shows the moment a flash flood pummels through Braunsbach, Germany, where it decimates a hotel.
Eyewitness footage captures the moment a tornado tears through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, destroying two schools with the pupils still inside. A tornado tears through an Oklahoma town, a parachutist finds himself at the mercy of a freak wind, and flash floods are shown at their most dangerous.
A holiday cruise ship sails into a hurricane terrifying 4000 passengers as their cabins are plunged underwater. A hurricane at sea plunges 4,000 cruise passengers into panic. Beset by a powerful storm, a herd of pregnant cows is driven into the Irish Sea.
Hurricane Patricia lands in Mexico, sending tourists fleeing for their lives. An English summer fair is beset by a tornado, sending a bouncy castle sky high. Cameras capture Hurricane Patricia's rampage as she tears apart a Mexican holiday resort. Plus, a bouncy castle is flung into the air by a tornado.
Everest base camp is wiped out after a massive Nepal earthquake triggers a deadly avalanche, causing mudslides to bury the whole village. Flash floods leave a pregnant woman stranded with her two children, and a tornado destroys a family barbecue.
An inferno tears through South Australia, threatening homes and livestock and backpackers are stranded off the coast of Panama. One of the deadliest hurricanes in US history, Katrina not only killed more than 1,000 people, but also left some 50,000 stranded.
The strongest hurricane to ever hit the Western Hemisphere crashes into Mexico, a tornado tosses trucks in Texas, a female driver is rescued from the Louisiana floods, and a plague of locusts visits Madagascar.
Vehicles flee an enormous tornado as it crosses a highway outside El Reno, Oklahoma; a big wave surfer narrowly escapes death; a dust storm interrupts a wedding.
A freak winter tornado in Illinois sees a man narrowly escape being crushed by his own house. A glacier falls in Greenland, releasing a wave resembling a tsunami.
Thailand experiences a fatal tsunami on Boxing Day 2004, with more than 250,000 casualties. Plus, another Boxing Day devastation comes in the form of a tornado in a Texas town.
In Japan's biggest national disaster since World War II, onlookers attempt to outrun a tsunami, even as the monstrous wave washes away entire towns.
A tsunami crashes on the coast of Chili, softball-sized hailstones smash windows in Texas, and Hurricane Matthew devastates Haiti. Plus the so-called 'morning glory clouds'.
A record breaking twister rips through the city of Tuscaloosa. A couple of students have a terrifying close encounter and the city hospital is swamped by hundreds of casualties.
Hurricane Harvey, the most powerful hurricane in a decade to strike the United States, rips a coastal town apart and dumps a once-in-a-thousand-years rainfall that drowns Houston.
Two devastating earthquakes hit Mexico in quick succession, and an Aussie storm chaser becomes trapped in the middle of the most powerful tornado ever recorded in El Reno, Oklahoma.
A rare tornado decimates a small town in rural Uruguay, snaring a man in his car and obliterating a huge warehouse. Meanwhile a thrill seeker fulfils his ambition.
The Cape in South Africa is struck by a devastating two-pronged attack of a violent storm and catastrophic wildfires that overwhelm the emergency services.
A 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.
North 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.
Devastating mudflows flatten the Californian coastal community of Montecito; a sudden flash flood sweeps up an inexperienced kayaker in South Africa.
A 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.
Tennessee'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.
The 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.
Irma, a category five hurricane, devastates the Caribbean. In Fiji, a carer battles catastrophic floods to reach children at an orphanage.
Heatwave 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.
A terrifying tornado traps pupils and teachers in an Indiana school, wildfires rip across England, a landslide hits hikers in Argentina, and a man descends into a deadly volcano.
A deadly volcano eruption causes catasphrophic destruction, a tornado flips cars on a highway, and the HMS Coast Guard carry out a daring rescue mission.
Flash floods tear through Maryland in the US, a couple get stranded in a Himalayan blizzard, and a boat race is besieged by a rare weather phenomenon.
Devastating floods trap residents in Australia, a base jumper gets stranded in freezing temperatures and a destructive hail storm batters Texas.
In Australia, bushfires sweep across Kangaroo Island; a pair of tornado chasers and a lucky tourist pursue a storm in Kansas; a pair of sailors face a cyclone.
Houses collapse and lives are devastated as 150mph winds from Hurricane Ida rage through Louisiana. In California, a huge wildfire threatens to engulf a ranch.
An earthquake in Izmir, Turkey, sets off a terrible chain of events as a young girl is trapped under rubble. In Oregon, America, a wildfire threatens a family home.
Eighty-five days of volcano eruptions in La Palma are followed by rivers of molten lava that wipe out homes. In Italy, a freak hailstorm generates boulders of ice.
In Barrie, Ontario, a tornado rips through a construction site trapping a worker inside a portacabin. In Nepal, a party in the mountains face a huge avalanche.
In the US, a man and his dog dive into the basement as a tornado takes out a town in New Jersey. In Australia, a brand-new home is surrounded by fire.
The worst flooding in central Europe washes people down the street in Austria, sends rivers through houses in Belgium and leaves families stranded on rooftops.
In the US, holiday makers are trapped in water, surrounded by wildfire. A solo kayaker takes on storms as he tries to paddle the Pacific from California to Hawaii.
A family trek to safety after being cut off by raging flood water in the Australian bush. A woman falls through the ice trying to save her dog in Wisconsin.
Late snow leaves a Colorado town vulnerable as a wildfire rips through homes fanned by 100mph winds. In Alabama, 40 twisters hit the state across two days.
In the Philippines, Typhoon Rai rips through the islands, destroying communities. A snowboarder gets lost in Montana and is forced to hide from bears at night.
In Tonga, an underground volcano erupts at sea causing a tsunami that wipes out homes. In America, a giant tornado rips through four southern states in one night.
In the US, Hurricane Ida rips up the east coast. In arctic Canada, an adventurer gets stuck in his tent during a snow storm as hungry wolves circle outside.
