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'.