Dick Lowry

Day of Destruction Dick Lowry

TV disaster mini-series, with Chicago about to bear the brunt of a triple-whammy storm front. Just days before he's about to retire, chief meteorologist Andy Goodman (Brian Dennehy) discovers three separate weather systems about to simultaneously hit his city: an Arctic front from the north, a tornado cluster approaching from the west, and a drought-inducing system moving up from the south. If that isn't bad enough, when the city's main generating plant is destroyed, there's no way of informing the greater population of the coming dangers.

It soon falls to intrepid TV reporter Amy Harkins (Nancy McKeon) and Midwest Electric chief Mitch Benson (Thomas Gibson) to spread the word before the whole national grid collapses.