Twisters begins as the film follows a team of storm chasers working with a Dorothy V doppler in rural Oklahoma. With the goal in mind of reducing a tornado’s intensity by launching barrels full of sodium polyacrylate into it, the team suffers a devastating setback as their target suddenly morphs into an EF5 funnel.
Only Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Javi (Anthony Ramos) survive as the storm kills the rest of the crew.
Five years later, Kate and Javi reunite when Kate accepts a temporary position with a tornado radar company.
The two storm chasers join Javi’s business partner Scott (David Corenswet) and a YouTube star named Tyler Owns (Glen Powell) as the streaming sensation’s crew gathers together in Oklahoma to conduct experiments and report on what is anticipated to be a strong surge of powerful twisters.