Plot Synopsis

Using firsthand accounts and eyewitness footage, IN THE EYE OF THE STORM reveals dangerous close calls from inside epic natural disasters. Megastorms like 2021's Hurricane Ida and the 2023 Maui Wildfires were captured by onlookers who found themselves in the wrong place at the right time and boldly held up their camera phones to document their experiences. In the series opener, "Trapped in a Twister," hundreds of cameras capture a rare tornado outbreak in 2023 as it struck Rolling Fork, Mississippi and Little Rock, Arkansas. When a twister hits Lewistown, Illinois, a group of tornado spotters find themselves trapped in the eye of the deadly storm. Additional stories this season include ordinary people filming: their frightening attempts to escape when a rare derecho superstorm blasts through Nebraska and Iowa; and their taking to the sea for any chance of survival when a hurricane turned a small wildfire into an inferno in Hawaii.