Tornado Rampage

Jessica standing at what was her house
Photo Credit: Darlow Smithson Productions Ltd

Sucked into the monster tornado that hit Tuscaloosa, Alabama in April 2011, Amie Hall and her three children were transported a block inside their own house. In her eyewitness account she says, "It just felt like we were in the Wizard of Oz."

Hall's dramatic story, plus dozens of other first-hand accounts and astonishing video footage documenting the terrifying tornadoes that struck North America last spring, are revealed in Tornado Rampage'

In just three days in April 2011, over 200 tornadoes battered 17 American states in one of the most extreme weather events in history, killing more than 300 people and destroying nearly everything in their wake. The tornado outbreak, the largest since 1974, produced some astonishing twisters-one reached speeds of more than 320 kilometres per hour, one travelled more than 160 kilometres and one was more than 1.6 kilometres wide. The outbreak was the most deadly natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.

House completely destroyed after Tornado
Photo Credit: Darlow Smithson Productions Ltd

Tornado Rampage tells the exclusive stories of the people who experienced the terror of those three deadly days. One woman documents the force of a twister as she inadvertently heads into the eye of the tornado in her car-camera rolling. Lucky to survive, she shakes in panic after her car is lifted five feet off the ground and slammed into a nearby wall. Exclusive, dramatic video footage, including amateur camcorder footage shot inside the tornado's vortex as it flattened the town of Fultondale, Alabama, records events as people ran for their lives. Survivors tell how they were miraculously pulled alive from pulverized homes.

Other eyewitnesses relate terrifying accounts of losing friends and family in a matter of seconds. Tornado Rampage reveals the horror of living through those devastating days, and questions why tornados are so difficult for modern science to accurately predict. Tornado Rampage is a Darlow Smithson Production for Discovery, written and produced by Jamie Crawford and Simon Young.