[thunder rumbling]
[wind gusting]
[leaves rustling]
[stirring piano music playing]
[camera shutter clicks]
[thunder rumbling]
[softly] Gotta get up.
[softly] I'm workin' on it.
Seriously, Jeb. It's time to go.
[in normal voice] You found one for us?
[intriguing music playing]
[horn honking]
[Javi] What the hell?
[Kate] Storm's here, guys. Let's go.
Nah. Nah, it can't be.
[groaning]
God, went way too hard last night.
Javi, get up. Come on.
[Javi] No! Come on!
[music fades]
[Addy] Where are the trash bags?
Oh, found them.
Jeb, are you sure you're recording?
-I don't see a red light. -Oh.
-Yeah, recording. -Okay.
-[sputters] -[Jeb laughs]
Don't make me laugh. Stop it. Okay.
[clears throat]
Today, our science team from the Tornado Tamer project
is out in the field about to chase a storm southwest of us.
Our experiment is designed
to decrease the moisture inside of a tornado
to see if we can make it collapse.
Tell the folks how you do that, Kate.
Well, first we got to find a tornado
to suck up our super-absorbent polymers
in these barrels.
[Addy softly] Diapers.
Tell 'em it's the same stuff they use in diapers.
-[Kate] Oh, yeah. -[Addy] It's nontoxic.
[both chuckle]
Uh, the Doppler doesn't show a storm until the afternoon.
[Addy] But data doesn't see what Kate sees, remember?
How about Kate sees a few more hours of sleep?
That might work. Praveen!
What are you doing? Dorothy is not a desk.
[Kate] Come on. Get in, get in, get in!
Ready? You know what today is?
[all] The day we tame the tornado!
[all whooping]
Yeah!
All right. I'm gonna yak first.
-[Kate] Are you ready? -[Jeb] Shit.
-[Addy] Yeah! -[yells excitedly]
-[Kate] Are you ready, Jeb? -Yeah.
["Salió el Sol" by Don Omar playing]
[Praveen] Kate was right.
Southeast winds are pickin' up.
Yeah, they are.
It's really building up.
["Salió el Sol" continues over car stereo]
[singing along indistinctly]
One Mississippi, two Mississippi.
[cell phone ringing]
That's not a thing, by the way.
Hey, Mom, what's up?
[Addy] Yes, it is.
Yeah, yeah. Just chasin' weather around.
-[Addy] It's a thing. -Mm-mm.
Yes, we'll be careful. I promise.
[whispers] Mrs. Carter.
-Hey, Mrs. Carter! -Hey. Hey, Mrs. Carter!
-We miss you. -Hello!
Okay. I'll tell 'em. Gotta go.
Uh, she says there's barbecue at the house when we're done.
-[Jeb] Oh, yes! -[Praveen] Thank you.
-Thank you. -[Addy] Yum!
Man, I love Oklahoma.
All right, how are we gettin' to this thing?
[over radio] I'll need a southwest position
to read my sensors.
Yeah, comin' right up.
-One Mississippi... -[thunderclap]
[both exclaiming]
Oh, and the wind shear is strong.
-[rapid beeping] -Got some serious energy
building in there.
-Whoo! -[Praveen] Oh.
[Jeb] Hey, hey, buckle up.
[Praveen] Don't lean out the window.
-Whoo! -[Praveen] Come on.
Come back in. Addy, that's...
Could you please...
Ever since you got struck by lightning,
you're no fun.
Yeah, well, that's what happens.
Okay, we should get the mixture ready.
Don't you wanna wait for the rain to hit first?
[rain pattering]
Okay, we should, uh, get the mixture ready.
[Kate] Yes, we should.
[rousing music playing]
-[Kate] Jeb! -[Jeb] Yeah?
-[Kate] Come on! -[Jeb] Okay.
I'm mixing! [laughs]
-[Kate] Okay, yep, mix it. -[Jeb] I got it.
-Whoo! Here she is. -[Kate] That should be enough.
-[Jeb] All right. -Okay, we're good.
Hey, hey, look. Hey, gentle, gentle.
Light, right? Come on.
[thuds]
Now try it.
Usually it works, but...
[groans] This thing is so old.
Look, I mean, it's old,
but it's field-tested. You know?
Unlike Kate's science project over here.
It's our science project.
No time, Javi.
If Dorothy's not working, then forget the data, okay?
-We'll worry about it later. -Forget the data? What...
The tornado's not gonna wait for us, Javi.
There's a death ridge setting in.
Probably our last chase this season.
No matter what, we gotta get these barrels in the air
and see if they can make a tornado vanish.
Okay? It's more important.
[hesitates] No. No.
How about it's equally as important we do both, right?
Look, if you make a tornado vanish with this,
but you don't get the data with this,
who's gonna believe it?
-Oh. Got it. -[machine whirring]
Fine. Get us the numbers.
Whatever we need to win a big, fat grant.
Well, I'm all about my cash money, right?
[car engine starts]
[Kate and Addy whooping]
-[Jeb] You ready? -[Kate] Let's go.
-[Praveen] Let's go! -[Javi] Hey, be careful!
[adventurous music playing]
[glass squeaking]
[Praveen] I've got a CAPE of 4,000.
100 knots gate to gate. Wind shear aloft.
Come on. Give us a nice, respectable EF-1.
I mean, EF-2, we'll take it.
Well, an EF-2 would be too big.
You have no faith, Praveen.
Just no more of those baby EF-zeros.
Javi, how's Dorothy's GPS?
Dorothy's coming in loud and clear.
[rain pattering loudly]
[all gasp]
[tires screeching]
[all exclaiming]
Are we in the tornado?
No.
No, it's behind us.
-Okay. -Wait, should I drive faster?
No, no, no. We've gotta drop the barrels in its path.
Are we gonna see the path?
-[object thuds] -[all gasp]
-Guys! -[tires screeching]
[Addy and Kate exclaim]
[thunder rumbling]
[Kate] This is the path.
[Addy] How close is it?
[Praveen] That's a lot of lightning.
[Kate] Okay, you guys stay here.
-I'll get it. -[Praveen] Kate, wait!
[Jeb] Hey! We gotta help her, guys.
[Addy] It's spilling! We gotta hurry!
[all straining]
No, we need leverage to tip it!
[Addy] Jeb, hurry!
[grunting]
[Addy] Yeah!
Hey, Kate, you got muscles and...
brains.
[laughing]
[Kate] Okay, let's open them up.
Come on.
-[whirring] -Yeah! Whoo!
We're clear!
All right, we got it. Let's go, let's go!
[wind howling]
[tense music playing]
We gotta go!
[Kate] Okay, we dropped the trailer, Javi.
Now, let's see if it takes the bait.
Come on, come on.
What if there's no tornado?
What if it's just a dense wave of hail?
[dramatic music playing]
[beeping]
Whoo, baby! We just shot up 10,000 feet.
-Yes! -Yes!
Okay. That's not a hail wave.
We did it, Kate.
Wait, wait. It's getting closer.
[Javi over radio] Sensors rising. 30,000 feet.
The polyacrylate should be active now.
Are the winds weakening, Javi?
[Javi] Dorothy can't tell you that.
Lagrangian mechanics.
A moving sensor can't give you
the exact measurement of wind speed, but...
[beeping]
Oh, yeah! 40,000 feet
and your tornado isn't shrinking, Kate.
50,000 feet.
Holy shit.
No, no, no. This can't be right.
[Addy] Javi, talk to us.
Javi, talk to us.
Talk to us.
Sensors just shot up 70,000 feet.
-What? -Uh, the NEXRAD velocity
is 200 miles per hour.
That's impossible.
Unless it's an EF-5.
[suspenseful music playing]
Guys. Guys, whatever's in there, it's big.
It's big and it's moving fast. Drive!
You gotta get the hell outta there.
[Kate] Drive! Go, go, go!
Go, go, go!
But how did it become an EF-5?
[tense music playing]
[Praveen] It's getting closer!
[Kate] Look out!
[tires screeching]
[Kate gasps]
Everybody okay?
[wind howling]
We can't stay here.
There?
Overpasses are the worst in tornadoes.
[Addy] What do we do?
This car is gonna fly. Come on.
[Javi] Jeb, Addy, Praveen! Kate!
Guys, you gotta get outta there!
Can you hear me?
Kate!
[wind howling]
[panting]
[Jeb] Come on!
[straining]
-Kate! -[gasps]
-[groaning] -Kate, come on!
Where's Praveen?
Kate!
[Addy strains]
-Come on! -[Jeb] Kate!
Come on!
[grunts]
Addy! Addy!
Come on!
[Kate whimpering]
[Kate] No!
[Jeb] Put your arms around the rail!
Get in, get in!
Put your arms around the rail! You're gonna be okay.
[Kate whimpering]
-It's gonna be okay. -[wind howling]
Keep holding on. I've got you.
I've got you, Kate. I've got you.
-[screaming] -[Kate] No!
Jeb!
[screaming]
[silence]
[breath trembling]
[somber music playing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
[somber music continues]
[cell phone ringing]
[indistinct announcement on PA]
[guide] Come along, everyone.
Our regional office
focuses on New York metro weather.
But we can see weather around the country here.
Now, see these red outlines?
We're having extremely unusual activity
in this region called Tornado Alley.
Is a tornado coming to New York?
Oh, no. Tornadoes are extremely rare
in New York.
Though we had an EF-1 hit Brooklyn
two years ago.
-Whoa. -[guide chuckles]
[guide] We have 20 full-time meteorologists.
[Derek] All right. Looks like we've got some rain coming.
Wind's currently at 28 knots, moving northeast at 15.
Should call an advisory.
Hey, Debra? Deb...
The model projects it's heading into Maryland.
I'll make the call.
Kate, what do you see?
Um...
Wind speeds have fallen two knots.
Structure's weakening.
Looks like it's all falling through.
I think it's gonna lose steam.
Let's hold off on any alerts.
'Kay.
[Debra] Keep an eye on it.
Kate, there's a guy here to see you.
He's in the conference room.
Hi, I'm Kate.
Hey, Kate.
[Kate] Hey.
It's been a while.
After graduation, I went back to Miami.
Felt like I needed to regroup.
I mean, shit, you wouldn't believe it, I joined the military.
You joined the military?
Yeah. I was just feeling kinda lost.
I tried reaching out to you a few times.
Yeah, I'm not great with communication.
Yeah, I mean, you know, I figured.
You know, life and all and...
I hadn't heard from you, so, you know,
I stopped by your mom's in Sapulpa to check in.
She said you don't come home anymore.
I knew you'd moved,
but I didn't expect you to move somewhere like New York.
New York's great. I like it here.
People are nice.
-[tires screech, horn honks] -[Javi] Whoa!
[driver] Get your ass outta the street!
[Kate] Most people.
My job in the military was to operate one of these.
Phased array radar. PAR.
You know, scanning for missiles.
Leveled up from Dorothy.
Many levels.
This thing was so powerful and so fast,
I could watch a moth fly from, like, a mile away.
But I kept askin' myself,
what if we point this thing at a tornado?
Well, Javi, it's the size of a building.
You'd never be able to get it close enough.
Until now.
The military, they came up with portable units
and they're small.
And I got my hands on a few prototypes.
Yo, my man, can I borrow this real quick?
Thanks. Appreciate it.
All right, look.
Let's say this is a tornado, right?
My team drives up.
We place the portable PAR here.
And it's giving me incredible high-resolution images
but they're still kinda flat.
So what do we do?
My team sets up two more, here and here.
Now, we have a...
A three-dimensional scan.
The most perfect scan of a tornado ever.
Kate, we can use this data to save lives back home.
I mean, this is incredible.
I know.
And you're the only person that can get me
close enough to a tornado to do this.
Javi, I...
[hesitates] No, I don't chase anymore.
Come on, Kate.
What have you been doing here?
Sittin' behind a computer screen, like...
The girl I know, she'd be going into the storms
while everyone else was runnin' away.
Well, I'm not that person anymore.
You have a gift.
Look, I can't do this without you.
Look, [sighs] I should really be getting back.
But, um...
it was good seeing you.
And you be careful out there?
[Javi] Kate?
You ever wonder
why it was us that made it outta there?
[Jeb] It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay.
It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay.
-I've got you. -[gasps]
[train tracks rattling]
-[sighs heavily] -[cell phone chimes]
[pensive music playing]
[Javi over voicemail] Hey, Kate.
Another town got hit last night with no warning.
We're having a once-in-a-generation
tornado outbreak in Oklahoma.
It's coming after the people we love.
It's gettin' worse every year,
but now we have a way to fight back.
Just gimme one week out here, Kate.
I got a good team,
but the only thing that's missing is you.
Call me back.
["Never Left Me" by Megan Moroney playing]
I'm not gonna lie, I didn't think you'd come.
Nice upgrade from the old van, right?
Yeah. How are you paying for all this?
I got investors, you know.
Storms are getting more erratic.
Lot of new housing developments goin' up.
So, the developers, they want full-time weather data.
So, anytime a new building goes up,
I want a Storm PAR radar right there lettin' the people know
exactly what the storm's gonna do.
I'm telling you, I really feel like
we're gonna change the game, Kate.
What?
No, it's just, um...
business entrepreneur was not how I saw your future.
-[chuckles softly] -I mean, we used to feel lucky
if we could get you to wear pants.
Yeah, well, that hasn't completely changed.
[Kate chuckles]
["Never Left Me" continues playing]
[man 1] Yeah, don't waste too much time.
[man 2] Hey, Gary, do you have extra batteries?
Pretty sure they could handle a storm.
Yeah.
[Scott] You got that equipment locked down, boys?
You got it?
[Javi] Bring it in, team.
All right.
You guys have all heard me talk about Kate.
How no one has better instincts.
She's the smartest person I know. She's the best.
And you will never work
with a more talented team than this one.
Look, we got PhDs from NASA, FEMA, NOAA, NWS.
Oh, you've got the whole alphabet.
Only the best.
Except for Scott, my partner here.
He went to MIT instead of Muskogee State.
But he makes up for it
with his beautiful, amazing personality.
Well, Kate's only giving us a week.
But while we have her... [exclaims]
it's gonna be the wildest tornado week
-you've ever seen, fellas! -[chuckles]
Yeah, and everybody with a $10 weather app knows it.
We got to stay ahead of this circus.
[horns honking]
["Ain't No Love In Oklahoma" by Luke Combs playing]
["Ain't No Love In Oklahoma" blaring over speakers]
Hey, Storm PAR!
We're live on YouTube. Say somethin'.
Blow me, Boone.
Don't engage.
Hey, smile, man! Science is fun, right?
[Boone cheering]
Who are they?
Chasers outta Arkansas.
Hillbillies with a YouTube channel.
[crowd cheering]
[man] Love you!
[Boone] Hey, T, tell the folks how you're feelin'.
I'm feelin' pretty good, Boone.
And if you feel it...
[crowd] Chase it!
I said, if you feel it...
[crowd] Chase it!
Chase it!
-[cheering] -Oh, it's a beautiful day!
Beautiful day.
Huh.
[woman] Look, is that Tyler?
That's Tyler Owens.
He calls himself a "tornado wrangler."
What does that even mean?
Hey, you tornado nerds, who wants a T-shirt?
Just means our world is going to shit.
-[crowd clamoring] -[Dexter] Okay, we got mugs.
Whatever you put in here,
it's gonna make it taste better.
You're gonna get thirsty out there. You look thirsty.
You look sweaty. Give me some cash.
[Dani] Just $30, and you're part of the show.
-[all exclaiming] -[Dexter] That stuff's hotter
than asphalt in July. Give me that. Give me that.
Who else wants a mug?
All right, let's get ahead of this bunch.
Here, let me see this. All right, Kate.
-[device beeps] -Which storm should we chase?
There's a nice-looking cell over to the east.
[Kate sniffs, clears throat]
It's, uh... It's been a while.
I'll just watch on this first one.
No, no. Kate, Kate. It's all right. You got this.
That's why you're here.
All right, all right, guys. Let's go.
Everybody get their last bathroom break in.
All right, pee quick, fellas. We're on the clock.
Five minutes, then we're loading up.
Here we go.
Okay, uniforms.
Wrinkle-free shirts.
Crisp hats.
No, it looks like they're goin' to church, man.
I like it. Right?
[Lily] Lookin' good, lookin' good. [chuckles]
Hey, man, you're not gonna hold the door? Come on, man.
-Too heavy? -Storm PAR. Storm PAR.
All right, see you out there.
[crowd speaking indistinctly]
Come on, Kate. You got this.
[intriguing music playing]
[Scott] What is she doin'?
She's doing her thing, man.
[serene music playing]
[Tyler] You know, I used to do that too.
Compare the wind direction to cloud movement.
Gets you a feel for the shear.
Yep. Sometimes the old ways are better than the new.
What is Owens up to?
You tell me.
So, where you comin' in from?
New York.
Oh, you're a long way from home, city girl.
So you like working for Storm PAR?
Tyler, do we know which storm we're going after yet?
Well, why don't we ask...
Kate.
Hi, Kate.
I'm Tyler.
Uh, and I'm Ben.
I'm a reporter.
Doing a piece
-on American storm chasing. -Yeah.
Tyler's letting me ride along.
And Ben just had to promise to write
nothing but good stuff about me.
-[Ben chuckles] -Good luck with that.
Hang on.
You didn't say which way we were goin' yet.
Now, from what I gather,
west,
we double our chances.
East,
well,
it's high risk, high reward.
Then go for the reward.
Don't want Ben to think you're boring.
Now, boring is not usually a problem for me, Kate.
Two cells to the west are fighting over the same inflow.
They'll choke each other out.
This one to the east has the sky all to herself.
Moisture, wind shear,
instability.
All the things you need to give Ben a good show.
[Tyler] Well, city girl knows her stuff, Ben.
I said city girl knows her stuff, Ben.
Thanks.
Maybe if I work real hard,
I could be a tornado wrangler too.
[Javi] Talk to us.
We want the cells to the west.
Uh, the one to the east has much better numbers.
Conditions don't feel right.
Cap is too strong. It'll never break.
You heard her.
Let's move.
All right, let's move, fellas.
-[Javi claps] -[Scott] Fine.
Guess we're listenin' to dandelions now.
[thrilling music playing]
But I thought she told us east.
She going the wrong way?
Nope.
[windmills whooshing]
What did the tornado cowboy have to say?
Exactly what you'd expect.
[Javi] Yeah.
[Kate] Oh, updraft is cycling.
Okay, let's take a right up here.
[thrilling music continues playing]
[windmill creaking]
It's forming just like you called it.
Scarecrow, Tin Man,
get into position. Wizard, stick with me.
What's the plan?
So, we want a 3D scan of the entire area around the vortex.
Which means we're gonna surround it with three radars,
each one pointed at the tornado.
Tin Man will get behind the tornado
and plant his radar on the right-hand side.
Scarecrow is gonna get behind the tornado
and plant his on the left.
And all the data that they send
will be received by Wizard.
[Kate] And how about Lion?
[Javi] Well, we gotta complete the triangle.
We get right in front of that thing and set up our radar.
You got this, Kate.
Just tell us where the front of the tornado is.
-[Kate] Okay. -[thunder rumbling]
That's our tornado, baby!
[thrilling music continues]
-Look out! -[tires screeching]
["Arkansas" by Chris Stapleton playing]
[Kate] Whoa!
-[Boone whooping] -What's up, chat?
-[laughing] -Welcome back.
Thank you for joining us.
It is a perfect weather day.
We just had tornado genesis.
I'm looking at a tall rope due north of us,
and she is pretty.
Dumbasses! Man, it's like the wild, wild west out here.
["Arkansas" continues]
Whoa. Okay!
-[tires screech] -[grunts]
Joining us today, per usual, got my
chief storm hound Boone.
Boonie, baby. Whoo!
We got Dexter and Dani in the caravan behind us.
-[growling] -[shouts]
[Tyler] And Lily with her drone ready.
What's poppin'? What's good?
[Tyler] And our special guest today,
we got Ben in the back seat.
-[Boone whoops] -[Tyler] Ben, you just came in
from London yesterday, right?
Uh, uh, yes.
South London.
Just between Streatham Hill and West Norwood.
Okay.
-Tyler, tornado's on the move. -Okay.
["Arkansas" continues]
[tornado rumbling]
[windmills creaking]
Oh, yeah!
-Oh, it's on now, Ben. -[Ben laughs]
You ain't in London anymore. [laughs]
"Strattonham." "Berkshire." What the hell?
Get me in front of it.
Okay, we need to take a right.
Here.
[Scott over radio] Lion, this is Scarecrow.
Tornado's movin' steady at one-seven miles per hour.
Damn. Dandelion girl was right.
All right, who asked you, man? Just drive.
Slow down. Just keep us out of the hail.
Whoo! We got golf balls, baby!
Those golf balls or baseballs?
[both] Grapefruit! Yeah!
-[Tyler cheers] -I'm assuming this is safe.
Heads up!
Okay, okay.
Whoo!
[all cheering]
You little beauty.
[gasps excitedly]
[speaks foreign language]
[horn honking]
What are you doing?
It's the Tyler Owens effect.
Wizard, hang back. Get those hard drives fired up.
Copy that. Wizard hanging back.
[beeping]
The path is shifting. Okay, there's a right coming up.
This is Tin Man.
Approaching our PAR position.
[wind whooshing]
Ready, one, two, three.
All right. Strap it! On!
Tin Man is active.
[dramatic music playing]
-[computer chimes] -[beeping]
[man] Okay, Tin Man. PAR data's coming in.
[dramatic music continues]
Where, Kate?
We gotta be within 300 meters for the radar to work.
Scarecrow's takin' position.
Go!
-Lock it. -[lock clicks]
Javi, Scarecrow is active.
Scarecrow is up.
[man] Okay, Scarecrow, we got you.
[over radio] Waitin' on you, Lion.
-[hail stones clattering] -Here. Take these.
Come on, Kate. Talk to me, talk to me. We gettin' close?
[hesitates] Just up there in the clearing.
[tense music playing]
[wind howling]
Kate! I need you!
[panting]
Kate!
-[howling intensifies] -[Kate screams]
Kate!
[Kate] Javi, get in!
Get in!
What is it? What is it?
-What do you see? -This isn't right.
[Javi] Hang on, guys. We're gonna find a closer spot.
-This where it's headed? -[breathing heavily]
Javi...
[tense music continues]
[tense music fades]
We're too far!
[Tyler chuckles] Storm PAR!
Javi!
What are you doing out here, man?
Tornado's that way.
Hey, Kate.
[cheering] Nice goggles, Javi!
All right! Here we go!
Whoa, buddy!
["(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" playing over speakers]
[Tyler laughing]
Oh, yeah!
[laughing nervously]
[Tyler] All right, boys. Harnesses on.
[Boone] Harness time.
Oh, yeah. It's my favorite part, Ben.
-Harness? -Yeah, we're entering
the suck zone, baby.
-Ben, put your harness on. -I'm doing it.
Going to a tornado, for God sakes.
[Tyler] Oh, yeah.
All right, here it comes!
My harness won't do up.
-My harness won't do up. -Ben, you gotta hurry.
Damn, dude.
Why didn't you tell me this before?
Put your strap on.
Oh, God!
[firework whistling]
[fireworks exploding]
Are those fireworks?
Yep.
[Tyler] Oh, yeah!
[Boone] Yeah, baby!
[both cheering]
[Tyler] Oh, yeah!
[both cheering]
[Tyler] Oh, yeah!
[Tyler laughing]
[Boone] How you feeling, brother?
Oh, top of the world, man.
All thanks to my crew.
I got Boone on camera.
[over recording] We got Lily, Dexter, Dani.
You viewers asked me,
"Can you shoot fireworks up a tornado?"
And the answer is yes.
-Yes, you can. -[Boone whooping]
How we doing back there, Ben?
Ben?
[Ben retching]
All right, all right.
If you feel it, chase it.
Remember, you kids, do not try this at home.
We are professional
-tornado wranglers. -Yes, indeed.
-He's insane. -[Tyler] Oh, yeah!
Yeah.
I'm sorry, Javi.
I screwed up.
Hey,
we'll find another one.
It's all part of the gig, right?
Yeah. Of course.
[Javi] I'm gonna go check in with Scott.
[Javi] Yeah.
-No. Yeah. -[grunts]
[Javi] I know. I know, I know, I know.
-[sighs] -But it... Look, it's not
anyone's fault, man.
[Javi] It's not anyone's fault.
A lot of things went wrong and...
It's not... You know, I think that...
[singers singing] Let me ride on the Wall of Death
One more time
Let me ride on the Wall of Death
One more time
[Javi] Haven't we stayed here before? [chuckles]
Yeah, Javi, we've stayed in every motel in Oklahoma.
[chuckles]
Remember, we used to have Addy check in?
Then later we'd all sneak into the room
so we could all save ten bucks?
[chuckles softly]
I mean, we'd have Addy do it, 'cause she was, you know...
'Cause she looked so sweet. [laughs]
Hey, um, you wanna hang out later?
I mean, I'll go, you know,
just go into the room real quick, and obviously,
shower and we can come back out here.
Um, look, I'm real tired but, um,
maybe another time?
Yeah.
All right.
-Good night. -[Kate] Good night.
It's good to have you back.
I'm not back.
I remember. "One week."
-[Dani] Look at him! -[Boone] We did it!
[Dani] Here we go, now we gotta top it.
City girl.
-[all cheering] -Howdy!
"The cells to the west
"will choke each other out," she said.
"The one to the east will put on a show."
Well, didn't throw you off the scent.
Hey.
That's what makes Tyler famous.
You mean on YouTube?
[Boone] Oh, yeah. Yeah.
We're on the YouTube.
We got, what,
about a million subscribers now, huh?
Yes, sir!
-[all laugh] -Kate what?
Your surname, just in case I include you in my piece.
Oh, um, just Kate's fine.
-[Tyler] She's a tricky one. -[Ben] Mm-hmm.
Actually, you made a good call earlier.
The other cell, it looked stronger,
but cap never broke.
What's a cap?
It's a temperature inversion in the mid part
of the lower atmosphere.
It inhibits a storm from forming.
Right. Okay.
Good.
Where'd you guys all meet?
Did you, uh... Did you study meteorology at the U of A?
-[all laughing] -[Dexter] No. No.
[Boone] All right, Kate, me? You know,
I just flow with the wind.
You know what I'm sayin'?
Yeah, I never went to, like, school or nothin'.
Tyler, he studied meteorology, though.
Him?
[Boone] Yeah! You know, he's a cowboy scientist, you know.
He's got this natural instinct.
-Okay, Boone. -He taught me everything
-I know, so... -Boone.
You know, our crew's not like your crew, Kate.
We don't need PhDs and fancy gadgets to do what we do.
I guarantee you,
these guys have seen more tornadoes
than anyone else in this lot, combined.
-Is that right? -[Ben] Do you think there's
a chance we'll see one tomorrow?
-Hell, yeah. -[Boone] Oh, yeah.
Outbreak, baby. [exclaims]
You know, if you can keep up,
we'll put you in the episode.
Wow.
Where are you chasin' tomorrow?
[Tyler] Oh, no, no, no.
Not fallin' for that again.
Kate's from New York.
Can't trust a thing she says.
Well, you can always trust a guy
who puts his face on a T-shirt.
[all exclaiming and laughing]
[Boone] Man! Man, that was good!
Oh, my God, look at his face.
[Boone] That was spicy, wasn't it?
[all chuckling]
[woman] You gotta see this, guys!
Y'all gotta see this!
[Tyler cheering]
[Ben] Oh, God!
[all laughing]
[male reporter over TV] This is a 4Warn weather alert.
[female reporter] All right, Oklahoma, we could be looking
at a record number of tornadoes.
We've been talking about this for days now.
We need to stay weather-aware
with possible major storms
across Oklahoma over the next 36 hours.
[Javi] These are the properties that were wiped out yesterday
and all the information we can pull on them.
Hmm.
How 'bout the owners?
Most of the properties are underinsured
or have no insurance at all.
We did talk to a few people
who are very interested in all-cash offer...
-[man] Mm-hmm. -When do you wanna head out?
Kate, this is Marshall Riggs.
We've been working together.
He's one of the Storm PAR investors I told you about.
How scary was that tornado yesterday?
-Not at all. -[Scott scoffs]
[Javi] Listen, can you give us a couple minutes?
Maybe grab something to eat or...
And then we can head out.
[Riggs sighs] Well, boys, when's the next one?
[Tyler] Well, nothin's comin' outta that one.
[Kate] That one?
No, no.
No, it's clearly moving into a stable environment.
Yeah. No low-level CAPE.
Not enough shear to keep it interesting.
Yeah, it's gonna die out.
Not enough moisture to grow.
Where'd you say you learned how to track storms again?
I didn't.
You know, we're gonna be stuck here all day
waiting for nothing to happen.
How about we try to get along?
Yeah, you're right.
Tell you what, I'll get us a couple of drinks.
What would you like?
Really?
Really.
Wouldn't mind an iced tea. Thank you.
Comin' up.
["Too Easy" by Tanner Adell playing]
[Scott] We're gonna have a lot more materials
to send you before too long.
[Riggs] Let's keep helping each other out.
[Javi] We'll be in touch, all right?
-We gotta go. -Oh.
All right.
Um, look, we're almost done here.
Now. We got something big.
The moisture's found up here,
so that's where we want to focus.
Pack up the burritos. We got a winner.
Lily, get your drone in the air.
We need your video stream.
-Ride with us. -Northwest, ten o'clock.
That's the one. Let's ride.
[laughs] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-[chuckles] -Showtime, baby.
-[drone whirring] -Clear!
[Lily] All right. Come home, Cairo!
Let's go, guys, let's go!
[truck engines starting]
[car honks]
Damn, Tyler's on it.
["Too Easy" continues]
[drone whirring]
Ah. Kate must have seen the storm too.
They just passed Dexter and Dani.
So, what's the deal with her?
Why don't we focus on our story, Ben?
Sorry, she's just
intriguing.
What do you see?
[Kate] Okay. Already has a nice structure.
Moisture levels are just right, and lots of CAPE.
What else are you seein'?
[Kate] Flow is clean, blowing tons of
warm, moist air from the south.
[Tyler] And when that warm air
and moisture busts through the cap,
it explodes in the atmosphere, creating an anvil.
And the vertical wind shear
begins to rotate the updraft,
forming a mesocyclone.
Here's the mystery.
We don't know how a tornado forms.
We see the hook on the radar, but...
What are all the invisible factors coming together?
[enthralling music playing]
Every little detail that
-has to be perfect? -...has to be perfect?
And it's a mix of what we know
and everything we can't understand.
It's part science,
part religion.
-Come on, baby. Come on. -Come on, please.
-Please, please, please. -Come on. Come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
[Javi] There it is.
Yeah, baby!
-Here we go, Ben! -[Boone] Whoo!
Hey! You see that? Look at that.
That's a tornado right there, baby.
Get some photos of that, Ben.
The birth of a tornado, nature's masterpiece.
[enthralling music continues]
[tornado rumbling]
Please tell me you guys are seeing this right now!
[screams]
-We got twins! -[Tyler] We got twins.
Twins!
-Oh, my goodness. -[camera shutter clicking]
Is that normal?
[Dexter] They're rotating.
Wait, there's a name for that.
There's a name... There's a name...
-There's a name for that. -Hey, just watch it.
There's a name for that!
[Dani] Just enjoy it, man!
[Dexter] Fujiwhara Effect!
Fujiwhara Effect!
[gasps]
[Tyler] Oh, they're pullin' apart.
One's gonna die out.
-Go faster. -Whoo!
You ready?
Let's get our data.
[both chuckle]
[upbeat country music playing]
Come on, Javi.
Oh, they got they fancy little trucks there, don't they?
[Tyler] I like this. All right. You guys ready to rock?
[Boone] Let's go!
[engine revving]
Come on!
[horn honking]
Go for it, get around him.
Get on his left, get on his left.
-I'm trying. -Well, try harder.
To the right! Come on, come on!
Oh, we got a little
-weave goin' on here. -Nope, nope, nope.
-Come on, now. -Nope, nope, nope. [laughs]
All right, guys, let's stop playing games.
Let's cut these guys off.
-Come on! -Oh! I told you, I told you.
-[Lily laughs] -Eyes on the road.
Whoo!
There you go, Owens.
[upbeat country music continues]
[Javi] All right, which one's gonna stay? Which one's
-it gonna be, Kate? -Okay, I'm on it.
All right, Tyler, we gotta make a choice.
Which one are we goin', left or right?
All right, y'all, we got Tyler Owens here
makin' a high-pressure choice.
Boone?
Can you stop filmin' for a second? I need to think.
[Boone] Yeah, no. Of course.
All right, Tyler doesn't want you
to see this, all right? He's... He's thinkin'.
All right, Lily, what are you seein'?
It's lookin' like the inflow is crankin' on the right.
Let's go for the right.
Uh, there should be a road coming up.
All right, we're takin' the right.
All right, right, guys, right!
Why the right?
Well, it's got a strong inflow of warm, moist air.
Tornado won't have to work as hard, Benny.
[tornadoes rumbling]
[soft music playing]
-[wind blowing] -[wheat rustling]
-Go left! -What?
Take a left!
[engine revving]
He's goin' left. Go left, go left.
Javi, you sure? The right one's got better numbers.
[thrilling music playing]
[laughing]
That's a bad move, honey buns!
Who the hell is making decisions up there, him or her?
[tornado rumbling]
Your intriguing girl just screwed the pooch, Ben.
["Dead End Road" by Jelly Roll playing]
[both cheering]
All right, get us set up, Boone.
-[Boone] Yes, sir! -We're gonna fire
a couple of flares
-straight up this thing's ass. -[Boone] Will do!
All right, drone's on the ground.
-[Ben] Hang on. What are you... -[Boone] Hey, Ben.
-[Lily] 'Scuse me. What's up? -[Ben] What are you doing?
[Tyler] Lily, I need you up here.
-[Lily] Yep. -[Ben] Sorry.
These are my new trousers.
[Lily] Gettin' my foot back.
[Tyler] All right, how we doin' back there, Boone?
-[Boone] Good. -A hundred yards to intersect.
Dexter, hang back.
Slow, slow, slow.
[Tyler] All right, Boone, we ready?
[Boone] Yep.
God, do we have to drive into it again?
No, Ben, it's drivin' into us.
-[Boone cheers] -[laughs]
[Lily] Ain't no other way!
[Boone] Hey, Ben, I'm gonna need you to hand me
some of them rockets in the bag.
Please.
-[whimpering] -[Boone] Thank you!
[singing along] I'm a red-lightin', low life
Anything but law-abiding
Feels too good to quit
Sing it, Ben!
[Boone cheers]
-Locked and loaded! -[Tyler] Hey, Boone, I'm havin'
trouble with this trigger here.
[Ben] Why are we stopping?
[Tyler] What's goin' on? Gimme the Phillips head.
-All right, here. -Can you get me some water?
[Tyler] Yeah, it feels like it's a little sticky.
Oh, no.
Oh, man. Boone,
-this is all chocolate. -[Boone] Sorry, man, I...
[Tyler] You gotta quit eatin' chocolate in the damn truck.
[Boone] Promise, I'm not gonna bring no chocolate anymore.
[Tyler] Hey, you goin'...
There we go!
Augers deployed!
[Ben] What?
Oh, no, no, no!
-Let's go! -[cheering]
[cheering]
[screams]
[tornado whooshes]
[Ben whimpering]
-[rock music stops] -[panting]
Was that it?
[sighs]
[engine stops]
Hey!
We shoulda went with her.
[Javi] Whoo! Baby, let's go!
That was amazing, Kate. How did you even know that?
Well, did you see the wheat? Winds moved to the north.
Just what this one needed.
[wind howling]
Scarecrow's up! Scarecrow's up!
Tin Man is up! Go, go, go!
[dramatic music playing]
We're all set! Kate, come on!
All PARs are active, Javi.
[wind howling]
[dramatic music continues]
[Kate] Javi, it's turning fast!
How we lookin'? Wizard, talk to me.
We lost your radar, Javi.
You got eyes on the tornado?
[exhales]
[foreboding music playing]
[both grunt]
What was that?
I think I killed some chickens.
[both grunt]
[wind continues howling]
[objects rattling]
[Kate whimpering]
[Javi] Come on!
[tornado whooshing]
-[Kate grunts] -[truck rumbling]
[Javi screaming]
[Kate breathing heavily]
[tornado slows down]
[both panting]
Thank God, it just grazed us.
[chicken clucking]
[clucking]
[Scott over radio] Javi?
-Javi, you hear me? -Yeah, I can hear you.
[Scott] All right, we got two radars looking good.
-Third one was gettin' great data. -[computer beeping]
We just need to find it, download it all.
Javi, the... the tornado's headed to a small town.
They already called it in. There's nothing we can do now.
But someone might need help.
There's a GPS tracker on the radar.
We need to find it before it dies.
Javi, we've got to help.
[Javi sighs]
[somber music playing]
[siren chirping]
[officer over speakers] Ladies and gentlemen,
we're imposing a curfew
for the safety of everyone in the area.
Unless you're a safety official,
please clear the area till 5:00 am.
Now, let us know if you need anything, all right?
You were right back there.
It's good that we came to help.
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Kate] I wish we could do more.
Javi. Can the data
from the PAR radar show us how the tornado died?
[Javi] Yeah, why?
[Kate] I don't know.
Maybe we could use it to prevent all this.
There's the Kate I know.
Hey, look, um... Here.
Take the truck, all right?
I'll go deal with locatin' the radar.
You should rest.
-Okay. -Yeah.
[whistling] Come on, buddy.
[Tyler whistling]
[woman] You got that in a medium?
That was a nice play on the left twin.
Yeah, well...
Didn't help these people any.
[Scott] Oh, this is...
This is my uncle, Marshall.
He's the owner of the bar here.
-How you doin'? -You're the owner, huh?
-Yes, sir. -I'm sorry what happened.
We're gonna make it right. Here's my card.
Didn't know Storm PAR was in the business of helping.
Well, from what I see,
they're tryin' to make a difference.
That's one way of puttin' it.
What?
Do you even know who you're chasin' for?
[Kate] What are you talking about?
How much more do these people gotta lose
before y'all done makin' a difference?
Sorry? Says the guy settin' up shop
sellin' T-shirts and mugs after a storm's hit.
Tyler? You have a minute for some questions?
Yeah, I got a dog to find.
Talk to Kate. She seems to have all the answers.
Hey, Boone?
Now's not a good time, Ben.
[Lily] Kate!
Here, take some food.
Oh. Don't have any cash.
No, it's free. That's why we're always selling those T-shirts.
[Dani] Get some free food.
Free water. Make sure you stay hydrated, all right?
Oh. Well, save it.
In case you run low.
Okay. Well, at least take some water.
-Thanks. -Yeah. See ya.
[woman] We have nothing now. [crying]
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Just took everything.
Everything's gone.
[reporter] Officials are estimating
residential property damage alone
in the millions of dollars.
How much more damage will these storms cause?
Forecasters say that the storms aren't done yet.
[reporter 2] The Blackwell public library
is dealing with devastating damage.
[knocking at door]
Some of Javi's crew said you were
stayin' out by the rodeo.
Thought you might be hungry.
You find the dog?
'Course I found the dog.
How you doin' after all that?
I mean, it doesn't matter.
It's those people that...
Yeah, well, you've seen the worst of this place.
Thought it'd be nice for you to see something good.
Wanna take you somewhere.
Think it might help.
Come on.
[woman singing] O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave
[crowd cheering]
["Feelin' Country" by Thomas Rhett playing]
[announcer] Picking him up by the heels' side,
can we get two legs?
Oh! The slippery leg would be a plus five.
[crowd cheering]
The best part is, Stillwater, they are one of yours.
So send them out with just a little bit...
You ever seen anything like this, city girl?
[horses whinnying]
You keep calling me that.
You know I grew up on a farm?
Yeah. In Sapulpa.
Couple hours from here.
This ain't my first rodeo.
[Tyler] Well, look at that.
I learned something about you.
[crowd cheering]
[country music continues]
[Tyler] So, tell me this.
What was your first tornado?
Tell me yours.
I was eight.
Drivin' with my aunt.
Sirens are going.
All of a sudden this vortex just
lowers right down in the center of the road.
I was just mesmerized.
Then I looked at my aunt.
She's got this look on her face, and...
I realized at that moment, I was supposed to be scared.
Were you scared?
Yeah.
Yeah, I was.
Wow, the tornado wrangler is scared of tornadoes.
[announcer] What do you say? Do you guys like
-the sound of that? -Okay, Sapulpa.
[upbeat music playing]
[announcer] Let's go to the judges...
[crowd cheering]
[Kate] Do you know him?
I used to compete.
I got my head stomped on by one too many bulls.
Thought college might be better for my brain.
You're scared of tornadoes
but not of riding bulls?
Well, tornadoes, bulls,
same thing.
Fear's the reason you do it.
You don't
face your fears.
You ride 'em.
[announcer] Let's go the cam, Jason.
[crowd cheering]
[country music playing]
[wind blowing]
[crowd murmuring]
[thunder rumbling]
Were you trackin' cells out this way?
[woman] Wanna go get a couple dogs?
Air feels heavy.
This isn't good.
[horse grunting]
-[thunder rumbling] -[cell phone signals blaring]
[people murmuring]
[emergency siren blaring]
Ladies and gentlemen, I just received word
a tornado has touched down near the area!
We need to evacuate this arena right now!
[over speakers] Once again, ladies and gentlemen,
we need to evacuate this arena right now!
[woman] Hurry, hurry! Come on!
[announcer] The tornado has touched down.
We need to evacuate the rodeo grounds immediately!
Once again, a tornado has just touched down.
We need to evacuate the rodeo grounds immediately.
[woman screams]
[thunderclap]
[crowd clamoring]
[Tyler] Come on, Kate!
-All right, you got it! -[Kate] You got her?
You're all right, you're all right. Come on.
[Tyler] All right, come on.
[tense music playing]
[guard] Get inside! Get inside!
[Tyler] Watch out, watch out!
-[Tyler] Whoa. Stop, stop! -[Kate] Stop, stop, stop!
[Tyler] All right, keep going. Keep going. Hey, hey, hey!
[Kate] Wait, wait, wait!
It's okay. Just get in the car. Okay, honey?
-Hey! Get inside! -[Tyler] Ma'am!
Stay out of the car. Come here.
[woman] Come to Mommy!
Hello? Nothin' works in this shithole!
Now the cable's out!
I can't get a soda from the vending machine.
-The pool's empty as shit. -Do you have a storm shelter?
Man, the AC is blowin' hot air.
[clerk] No, I'm sorry.
-Can get a refund goin' here? -All right, maybe, like,
a basement? Do you have a basement?
-[clerk] No. -There's a line here, buddy.
We need to get these people underground right now.
Okay, there's no tornado.
Nine times outta ten it's a false alarm.
[thunder rumbling]
[eerie music playing]
-[woman] You hear that? -And now the power is out.
No tornado.
We gotta find a shelter. Fast!
-Can we get that refund goin'? -[clerk] What... Hey!
[tense music playing]
-[wind howling] -[gasps]
Hey, I don't wanna have to give you a bad review.
-I just started working here. -Everybody come with me!
All right, follow her, follow her!
All right, come here. Ma'am, come on. Come on, move, move!
-Move, move, move, we gotta... -[man] Hey, whoa! Hey, what?
-[window shatters] -[siren wailing]
There's a tornado!
[Kate] Keep going, keep going!
[man] Hey! Let's hop in the Jeep!
-Keep going! -It's too close!
-[man] Let's go, come on! -[woman] All right!
-[man] Let's go! Go! Get in! -[Tyler] Go!
[man] Go!
Get in the car!
Go, go, go!
[metal creaking]
-Come on, honey! -[Tyler] Watch your step!
All right, we gotta go faster!
-All right, you got her? -[woman] I got her!
No!
No, stop!
[tornado whooshing]
[Kate] No.
We gotta go! We gotta go!
Go!
[tense music playing]
[Kate] Okay. Okay, hold on!
-[woman] Come on, honey! -[Kate] You gotta stay low!
-Cover her eyes! -Okay!
-Hold on tight, hold on tight! -[woman] Okay!
-Okay, you're gonna be okay. -Hold on, honey.
[Kate] Tyler!
[grunts]
[screams]
[Tyler] No, Kate! Stay with them!
[clerk] Help me!
[Tyler] All right. Look at me!
All right, stay down! Just grab my hand!
Come on! I got you. I got you.
Don't let it get me! Please!
Keep your head down and just stay low. Eyes on me.
-[clerk] I can do it! -Stay low! No, no, no!
-No, I can do it! -No, no! No, no, no!
[screams] Help!
-Help! -Hang on!
-[clerk] Help me! -Stay down!
-Help me! -Wait, no, don't do that!
[clerk screaming]
[tornado roaring]
[grunts]
[truck scraping]
[Kate] Tyler!
[straining]
[truck groaning]
[both yelping]
[woman] It's gonna be okay! You're going to be okay!
I've got you. It's going to be okay.
I've got you.
It's gonna be okay.
I've got you.
Hold on, baby. Hold on.
[Jeb] It's gonna be okay.
I've got you.
-[breathing heavily] -[tornado whooshing]
[tornado stops]
Tyler?
[woman] Are you okay?
Yeah.
Is it over?
[somber music playing]
[car horns and alarms blaring in distance]
[helicopter blades whirring]
[somber music continues]
Kate!
When I saw the size of it on the radar
and where it was headed,
-all I could think was... -I'm all right.
-Okay.
So, where did you stick it out?
Right down here.
It's a good call.
It's all Kate.
You been with Owens the whole time?
Yeah. Why?
[Scott] Javi.
Apparently this place was family-owned
so I'm gonna start workin' up some numbers.
Riggs is gonna want those first thing.
Okay, man. I'll catch up with you guys.
Yeah.
[Kate] Javi?
What is Riggs getting out of all your data collection?
What's it matter?
Is profiting off of people's tragedy
part of your business plan?
Why are you doing this?
Wait, hold on.
Riggs is offering these people
a way to move on with their lives.
He's swooping in and taking advantage of people
who have just lost everything.
I mean, you have no idea what that's like.
I don't know what that's like?
How about losin' three of my best friends
while you were tryin' to land a big, fat grant
for your science project?
-Huh. -Kate, Kate, I didn't...
Kate!
[indistinct radio chatter]
[Javi] Kate! Wait, wait. Don't leave like this!
-Look... -[truck lock chirps]
Kate!
-Where you goin'? -[engine starts]
["Out of Oklahoma" by Lainey Wilson playing]
[door opens]
Mama, it's me.
Kate?
What happened?
What...
[song fades]
[sniffles]
[Cathy] I am sorry there's so much junk in here.
[Kate] I'll clear it out for you tomorrow.
[Cathy] And your friend Javi stopped by a few weeks back.
Almost didn't recognize him with the haircut.
You chasin' again?
No.
Do you need anything?
No, I'm fine.
Okay.
Good night.
[cattle mooing]
["Chrome Cowgirl" by Leon Bridges playing]
[Jeb over video] Here we are.
[Kate] Oh, hello!
-[Jeb] Hello! -[Kate] Hello!
-[Jeb] Ahoy! -[Kate] Ahoy!
[Jeb] Kate is doing some work, as always.
Where is she? Show yourself.
Isn't she cute?
[Kate] What are you doing?
[Jeb] I'm just doing a little video tour of the barn,
where we do most of our work.
This is Kate's famous middle school project.
What is it you're working on, Kate? Tell the folks.
Uh, cloud microphysics.
-[Jeb] Say again? Cloud... -[chuckles]
-Cloud microphysics. -All right.
This is what I have
-to put up with... -[Kate laughing]
...when you're dating someone who is
-very bright. -[Kate] Gorgeous?
-Hey, Jeb? -[Jeb] Yeah?
What are we gonna do tomorrow?
-[Jeb] Today? -Uh-uh, tomorrow.
-What are we doing? -We're going chasing a...
We're gonna kill a tornado, right?
We're gonna be... We're taming a tornado.
-[Jeb] We're taming a tornado? -We're taming it.
[Jeb] This is Kate's favorite slogan.
"Taming a tornado."
[both laugh]
[Jeb] This is... This is what it's like
to be inside a tornado, Kate.
[Kate] Well, I can only do it with you.
[Cathy] How ya doin'?
[Kate] Just the way I left it.
I've been wondering what you want me to do with all this stuff.
[Kate] Oh.
You can just throw it out.
You done?
[Kate] Mm.
It's funny, I keep seein' more and more tornadoes,
and floods, and droughts,
and price of wheat and seed going up
and up and up.
[sighs]
But I'm still here.
I'm sorry, Mom.
I haven't been good about calling.
-[cell phone ringing] -I've gotta get this.
Um... Throw it away?
I'm still waitin' for you to save the world.
[button clicks]
[whirring]
[tornado whooshing]
Build your own tornado.
Look at that.
Middle school science fair project.
Well, you must have won.
[sighs]
How'd you find me?
Dexter pieced it together.
He remembered your name from the news a few years back.
I'm sorry about your friends.
I'm fixin' some food. You two okay eatin' outside?
Oh, I'm not gonna bother you, Ms. Carter.
He's not staying.
He's staying. You can call me Cathy.
Kate, why don't you set up the table?
[Tyler] That only gets you so far,
and every chaser has to make a guess.
And the good ones have an instinct for it.
Oh, she had that early on.
Always knew when weather was comin',
even better than the cows.
Oh, you hear that?
You're better than the cows.
-That's a compliment. -[Kate chuckles]
Gotta have a feel for it.
[Tyler] She always had a feel for it, huh?
[Cathy] Oh, yeah.
One time, I was givin' her a bath...
-Can we not? -Maybe just a little.
And we heard thunder.
And she shot up out of the tub and ran out the house naked
-as the day she was born. -[Kate] Oh, my God!
And I had no idea where she was. I was terrified.
And when I finally caught up with her,
she was standin' in the middle of the wheat field,
starin' at the sky.
I gotta try that out.
Will you stop encouraging her?
Keep your clothes on, Kate. Let your mom finish.
All I'm sayin' is,
she always loved weather.
Worse the weather, the happier the girl.
What about you?
Tyler, how'd you come to do this work?
Well, when you love somethin',
you'll spend your whole life tryin' to understand it.
Katie was studyin' for a PhD.
[Tyler] Wow.
I keep tellin' her to come back and finish it.
Okay, Mom.
She was headin' up a big study with her friends,
"Disrupting Tornado Dynamics."
Uh, does anybody need anything?
[Tyler] No, I'm...
I'm good, thank you.
Okay.
The once-in-a-generation tornado outbreak continues
across Oklahoma.
After that EF-4 that hit Stillwater,
the state will continue to see more devastating effects.
The Sooner State is bracing for
increasingly violent tornados...
[door opens]
[Cathy] I invited Tyler to stay the night in the guest room.
Mom.
[garage door opens]
You thought you could disrupt a tornado.
Hey, don't look at that.
Oh, you're the OG wrangler.
Tyler, can you give that to me?
"Using super-absorbent polymers to reduce
moisture in the updraft, trying to collapse it..."
-Tyler... -"...like a house of cards."
I mean, you'd have to
drop a silo of it in a funnel for any real effect.
Well, yeah, that's why we were tryin' to use
different reagents to enhance it.
-It's a dumb idea... -Yeah, some of your reactants are off.
A few of these solubility rules skew...
-[sighs] -[Tyler] What?
You really think I'm an idiot, don't you?
No, I don't think you're an...
Hey, modeling's got so much better.
-Tyler... -I can upload this
to my laptop, link up with a supercomputer.
-I'm tellin' you... -No, no, no. That's okay.
...we can get a new model running.
-Please, can you stop? -It's a great idea.
How did you not tell me about this before?
Because I got it wrong!
[breathing heavily]
In the field, in the moment,
when it mattered, I got it wrong.
Okay? I underestimated what we were up against
and I pushed it too far. [crying]
And for what?
Some childish dream I had that I could make a difference.
It was never gonna work.
And I have to live with that
forever.
[sighs]
You know, a EF-1 or EF-5 tornado rating,
it's not based on size or wind speed.
The power we ascribe to it,
it's based on damage.
Now, it's only after the fact we can really define it.
What it destroys.
What it takes from us.
I'm sorry for what happened.
But how much more are you gonna let this thing take from you?
[smacks lips]
[sniffles] You know, you should get some sleep.
Don't wanna miss any storms tomorrow.
[clears throat]
[pensive music playing]
[sighs]
[sniffles]
[sentimental music playing]
[thunder rumbling]
You said you could get a new model running?
Yes, ma'am.
So, this is an EF-1, perfect conditions.
Run your experiment. See if it works.
Okay, so, um,
1,500 kilos of polymer
absorbing 300 times its weight.
So, it's 450,000 kilos precipitation
loaded into our water-filled polymer to load the updraft.
Let's see how the model responds.
[Kate] Buoyancy of the rising air is reducing.
[Tyler] It's reducing.
-Slowin' the updraft. -[Kate] Temp is going down.
Kate?
Kate, in theory, this should'a worked.
In theory.
But it wasn't an EF-1 that day. I mean,
we never had a chance.
You want one?
["Steal My Thunder" by Conner Smith playing]
-[Tyler] Yeah, that's my radio. -[Kate] What's all this for?
Hey, what are you touching back there? Stop.
You have a lot of stuff in here.
Yeah, that... That's a mirror.
Oh, God.
Have you ever been in a car before?
You got a lot of gadgets.
[Tyler] Yeah, yeah, don't touch.
There's guards there for a reason.
-[Kate] What do these do? -[Tyler] That's a...
-Oh, God! -[fireworks exploding]
-Sorry. -That's a rocket.
Yep.
[Tyler] All right, what about these two little ones?
Just west of Enid.
Yeah, but this one to the east has the sky all to herself.
Yeah, I'm not fallin' for that again.
You serious?
Tell you later.
["Steal My Thunder" continues]
[Kate] Dew point is steady!
Wind shear is good!
Holy shit!
Oh, my God, the whole updraft is rotating! Holy cow!
[Tyler] I mean, look at those striations!
It's low precip! You can see everything!
Aw, she's perfect!
She's gorgeous! [laughing]
She's gonna give us something, come on!
["Steal My Thunder" continues]
[Tyler] All right, let's harness up.
We're just gonna drop the trailer in its path, right?
I'll tell you later.
Shit.
[laughs]
We don't have to drive into it. It's really dangerous.
Oh, that's why we have to drive into it.
Can't miss from in there.
Oh, shit.
[Kate grunts]
[tornado roaring]
Now, look, this thing's rated for EF-1s, Kate.
Oh, shit!
We got extra weight on the chassis.
We got anchoring down two feet.
Don't worry. I'm a professional.
[Kate] You're an asshole.
-Hold on. -Oh, Tyler, this is dumb.
-Hold on. -This is really dumb.
-All right, we got this, Kate!
-Here comes the kick! -Oh, God!
Oh, God, oh, God!
[Tyler] All right, slowin' down!
Anchoring.
Barrels.
Hold on!
[laughs]
Here she comes.
[tornado rumbling]
[Tyler] Now!
[wind whooshing]
[both laughing]
-Did you see that? -I saw it.
-[chuckles] -Wait, did it work?
Oh, right! Uh...
[grunts] So many belts.
It's not working.
[Tyler] Hungry?
What if it's the model that's the problem?
How do we create a better one?
[Javi] Hey, uh...
About what I said earlier, I didn't mean any of that.
It's fine.
If there's anything I can say or do to make it better...
Give me your PAR data. That's a start.
[pensive music playing]
What are you doing?
I'm givin' this to her. What does it look like?
[Scott scoffs]
I needed money to start Storm PAR.
That's why I went into business with Riggs.
I want to help people, too, Kate. I really do.
And I said what I said 'cause I...
I carry that guilt with me, too.
Every single day of my life, so...
I'm sorry.
Javi, why don't you stay and help us?
That way we could finally solve this together.
[chuckles softly]
You know, there was a time when I'd do anything for you, Kate.
[Scott] Javi! Let's roll.
We got a storm developing up near Enid. Team's waitin'.
[Javi] Look, I gotta get back to work.
The more data I get, the better for business.
[Kate sighs]
Sorry I stole your car.
It's all right.
Look...
Be careful out there.
[engine starts]
[Tyler] Wow, these scans are impressive.
[Kate] I mean, it's a complete map of the chaos.
Tyler,
our moisture numbers are off.
Currently the polymer is only absorbing
the existing raindrops,
not the moisture from the humidity.
I mean, we need it to precipitate out more.
So we need to make it rain.
They were cloud seedin' in Lawton
a few years ago, for the farmers.
Yeah, yeah! Silver iodide.
We could shoot rockets of that.
So, the silver iodide converts the moisture into rain.
And then the sodium polyacrylate,
we'd need a lot of it,
would pull the water from the storm,
increasing the cold pool.
No faster way to choke a tornado.
[Tyler] Hey, Lily.
Yeah, I couldn't get Boone.
No, we're gonna need you guys for somethin'.
No, no, no. We'll come to you.
All right.
Is this it?
Or you gonna come back before you go home?
-You know I will. -[Cathy] Okay.
-Love you. -Love you.
This is for you.
You have any idea what you're gettin' yourself into?
I'm beginning to.
Huh. Thanks.
-Okay. -[Cathy] Thank you.
-[truck door closes] -[Kate scoffs]
[truck engine starts]
Oh, Lord.
-You finally made it. -[Tyler] Ben, you stuck around.
Turns out there's more to this story than I thought.
We got a new ending for you.
[Dexter] Look who it is. City girl.
[Lily] What's up, Kate?
Finally decided to ditch all those squares, huh?
-Right on. -Mm-hmm. Yep.
Y'all missed a big one. Look.
Oh, wow.
-See? -Hey, can you...
Can you rig that drone to collect data?
I can do that.
[Dexter] Yeah, she can do that. Yeah. Yeah.
Easy. Easy.
Hey, buddy. I'm sorry.
How do I make it up to you?
Man, you abandoned me.
I don't know nothin' about no make-up.
How about we launch some new rockets?
["Already Had It" by Tucker Wetmore playing]
You said, "rockets"?
[Dani] Hey!
Y'all ready?
We need a 40-foot trailer that's light enough for a pickup
but heavy enough to anchor barrels in 100-mile-an-hour winds.
Why the hell would you want that?
Why the hell do we want that?
Well, 'cause when we drive into a tornado,
we want whatever is on the trailer to get sucked into it, but not us.
You're gonna want aluminum.
Okay.
Dexter, talk to me. What's going on?
Testing the Goldilocks principle of a tornado
by modifying the variables,
hopefully disrupting the process.
[Boone] Mm-hmm. Okay. Dani, what does that mean?
-Taming the storm. -[Boone] Right.
T? Tell us what's going on.
All right, we're gonna shoot the clouds
with rockets of silver iodide.
[Boone] Yep. Get some rain, right?
[Tyler] Yep. Rain is what we need in the updraft.
And then we're gonna take the sodium polyacrylate
and we're gonna deliver it in the vortex... Don't touch that.
...increasing the cold pool.
[Ben] And that does what to the tornado?
Cuts the fuel, Ben.
[Boone] Lily! Oh, look at Cairo looking all cute and whatnot.
Hey, buddy.
[serene music playing]
[camera shutter clicks]
[camera shutter clicking]
-She is your story, Ben. -[chuckles softly]
Get me a copy of that.
Let's get outta here.
Uh, no offense,
but I'm gonna get a ride with someone else.
[tornado rumbling]
[thunderclap]
[thrilling music playing]
That's it.
Hell yeah.
-We got it. We got it. -All right.
Okay, ground speed's at 22. Intercept is northeast.
Look for Siloam Road.
Siloam Road.
[tires screech]
[laughs]
[horns honking]
-Whoa, whoa, whoa! -Come on!
-Hey, what are you doing?
Hey! These Storm buttheads are cutting us off, man!
Told you we didn't need her.
All right, let's not get distracted.
Let's get these babies in the air.
[thunder rumbling]
I can't see it right now. I lost it.
[Scott] It's tracking straight ahead.
I'd say push it. Get ahead of it. Get ahead of it.
[device shuts down]
Doppler went dark.
That's probably a dead cell zone.
Lily, are you above us?
It's getting completely rain-wrapped.
I can't see a thing.
We just gotta push through this rain curtain.
[exclaims]
[thunderclap]
Ah! Yeah, I just lost my drone!
Hey, we lost visual.
I can't see anything.
That's all right. Just keep straight. I can see the road.
[Javi] No, something ain't right, man.
This feels different.
I'm telling you, I think we should stop.
[Scott] Just keep going. We'll get ahead of it.
Scott, we have to stop!
[Scott] Keep going! We'll get ahead of it.
Oh, shit!
It's right there! It's right there! Right there!
Get down! Down! Get down!
Javi!
Oh, God!
[both grunting]
-[Boone] Hold on, yo! -[Lily] Oh!
We gotta do something.
[Boone] Hey! On your left, Ty! It's hitting something big!
[thunderclap]
[Kate] Oh, my God.
[tense music playing]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Wait, wait, wait. We can't just leave them.
We're not gonna leave 'em, but we gotta move! We gotta move!
Back! Back up! Back up! Back up!
Dex! Go! Go!
[Dani] Go faster!
[Dexter] I'm going! I'm going! I'm going!
[Ben yelping]
-[screams] -[both grunting]
Shit.
[Kate] Javi!
[tornado whooshing]
Oh, God.
Hang on.
[engine revving]
[grunts]
Hang on, hang on, Scott.
Go, go, go!
Hold on, hold on, hold on!
[tornado roaring]
Is everybody okay?
Yeah.
[Ben] We're okay.
Yeah, we're good man. We're moving.
Are you seeing this?
Look at the size of that thing.
This is good.
[panting] No, that ain't good.
That ain't good.
It's shifting!
[children cheering]
[man] All right, that's it.
That's the game. Get off the field!
[emergency siren blaring]
Hey, guys, there's nothing we can do to stop it,
but when you get there,
make sure people get to a safe place.
All right. Dani, where am I headed?
There's a kid's park on Main.
[over radio] Make sure to get people to basements,
big buildings, no windows.
Stay away from windows. No cars, all right?
All right. Careful, y'all.
[Dani] Stay safe out there. Copy.
Wizard, come to us. We're gonna find a new position,
put these radars down.
[laughs] They're runnin' from it. They're scared.
They're not runnin'.
They're headin' into town to help.
Look, we gotta go too.
No, we got our access road here, on the left. Comin' up.
No, man, there's a lot of people there, man.
We got... I think we should follow 'em.
Whose side are you on, man?
You wanna go hang out with your little girlfriend?
Go. But we got the team waiting for us
and we got the storm of a century out there!
What are you talkin' about? The people!
Slow down, stop the...
-There's people... -I don't care about the people!
Stop the truck, Javi!
-We're plantin' here! -We need to go help!
[shouting] Javi, stop the damn truck!
[brakes screech]
[in normal voice] Good choice.
[Javi] Tell Riggs we're done!
-[engine revs] -[screams]
Damn it, Javi!
[man] I got her! I got her!
All right, go to your mom!
-[woman] Take her! -[man] Yep, got her!
[Boone] Hey! Everyone, get inside, all right?
Guys, let's go, go, go!
There's a shelter down there! Come on!
Hey, no! Leave your cars, get inside! It's not safe here!
-Come on! -Let's go, guys!
Everyone go inside!
[panting]
[people screaming]
[all clamoring]
Guys! Tyler! Tyler!
Shelters are all full.
We gotta get everyone to the movie theater!
Move! Everybody inside!
Sir! Sir, you gotta leave it. You gotta leave it!
Leave it, leave it! Come on, come on!
Let it go, let it go, come on, come on!
Guys, it's here, you gotta get inside!
Hey! C'mon, c'mon, c'mon! Go in!
Come on, we're almost there! I got you!
Come on! Get in, get in! Come on!
Come on, come on! You gotta go! It's here!
[Tyler] Get inside, everybody!
[man] Hold on!
[dramatic music playing]
[exclaims]
-[Tyler groans] -Tyler!
-[groaning] -Okay... [straining]
-Come on. -[both grunting]
[gasps]
[Tyler] Watch out!
[grunts]
You gotta get inside!
[Kate] No, I'm not leaving you!
Kate?
[metal groaning]
Come on, Kate, lift!
Okay...
[Kate grunting]
[Javi] Let's go, let's go!
Go, go, go!
[metal thuds]
[all screaming]
[man 1 on screen] What do you want?
[man 2] Let us in!
[man 1] You must leave me alone!
[woman] At least give us shelter!
[people screaming]
See if you can find a basement!
I'll check the other side!
[ceiling rumbling]
[Kate gasps]
There's no basement on the other side!
There's nothing over here, either!
This theater isn't built to withstand what's coming!
[people screaming]
[panting]
-[Dani] There you go. -You got her?
[woman] Keep your heads covered.
Where's Kate?
[dramatic music playing]
[engine starts]
[Tyler] Kate!
Kate!
[tornado roaring]
Where's Kate?
[dramatic music continues playing]
[gasps]
[breathing heavily]
[gasps]
[thunderclap]
-[whirring] -[locks click]
[grunting]
-[Tyler] No, Kate! -[Javi] Come on!
Tyler! Tyler!
-Tyler! -[Javi] Get him in!
Doors!
-[Boone] Okay. -[all panting]
Damn!
-[rumbling] -[people panicking]
[Lily] Stay down, stay down, stay down!
Go, go, go! Go, go, go!
That way, that way! You have to get down! Get down!
That's it! Don't look back. Don't look back! Keep going!
We gotta get these people...
We gotta help get these people to the back of the theater.
Tyler, come on. Come on!
Hey. We gotta go, T.
Come on! Come on!
[tense music playing]
Okay.
[whirring]
-Come on, come on, come on! -[whirring]
Take my hand, you gotta get up!
Get back! Get back!
Get back! You're okay, you're okay! Slow it down.
[Javi] Hold tight! Get down! Get down!
Push in! Push in!
It's alive! It's alive! It's alive!
[Tyler] Hold on!
[tornado roaring]
Come on.
[grunts]
[people screaming]
[man screaming]
[all straining]
[panting]
[dramatic music playing]
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[truck rumbling]
[people screaming]
Lily! No!
Tyler! Tyler!
Don't let go, don't let go, don't let go!
[Tyler] I got you!
[straining]
[wind dying down]
[panting]
[softly] Thank you.
[both panting]
[man] Over here.
-Are you all right? -Mm-hmm.
-You okay? -Mm-hmm.
[solemn music playing]
[Tyler grunting]
[solemn music playing]
[Kate coughing]
[panting]
[coughing]
[Javi] Kate.
[Tyler] Kate.
[Javi] Careful.
[Tyler] You okay?
[coughs] Is everyone okay?
Is it okay? [breathing heavily]
Did it help?
You did it, Kate.
-You did it. -[chuckles softly]
Kate, it worked.
You okay?
[all cheering]
[Dani] Oh, my God, that was amazing!
Oh, my God.
We thought you were a goner for sure!
-You're brilliant. -Mm-hmm!
I think I love you.
[Lily] I thought for certain I was gonna fly!
[Dexter] You're right.
[Boone] No, you did fly! Honestly!
[Dani] Oh, so you flew?
[all laughing]
Door-to-door service, just like I promised.
Brought you back in one piece.
Yeah, just about. [chuckles]
Look, when you get to New York, with the review board,
they're gonna say that it was
the fire from the refinery, or the smoke,
or a million other things that caused
that tornado to vanish, and that's fine too.
But the point is, is that we know
these things can be disrupted, and we need
a whole new branch of research
on how to harness these storms.
Are you sure you don't want to do the pitch?
It sounds like you want to do it.
Nah. Nah, partner.
Go get us that money, you know what I'm sayin'?
I ditched Riggs.
All right? Fresh start.
Maybe it's time to renovate the old barn.
I like that.
Whoa, Owens!
-Storm PAR! -[Javi chuckles]
Sapulpa.
Still not tellin' me when you're comin' back?
I don't know.
This could be it.
Can't tell if you're jokin' or not.
Well, maybe if you feel it,
you should chase it.
["Run Horse Run" by Charley Crockett playing]
Gimme a call, all right?
Let me know how it goes!
Safe flight!
Okay, time's up. You gotta move your car.
Yo, come on, man.
Seriously?
Can we get a, uh, tow truck here to departures?
Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna move. I'm gonna move.
What's goin' on? Move your car!
Go!
Now!
[sighs]
Whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa!
No, no, no. Hey!
Attaboy!
["Run Horse Run" continues]
[PA chimes]
[woman on PA] Due to increasing winds from a nearby storm,
please expect delays.
["Ain't in Kansas Anymore" by Miranda Lambert playing]
[thunder rumbling]
[thunderclap]
[thunder rumbling]
["Ain't in Kansas Anymore" continues]
We are professional tornado wranglers.
Think I'll get my own face on a T-shirt?
-That'd be cool. -If you're lucky.
-That'd be really cool. -I'd wear one.
You would?
All right, Boone, you take that back.
[thunder rumbles]
["Leave The Light On" by Jelly Roll ft. Alexandra Kay plays]
[song ends]
[instrumental music playing] y Roll ft. Alexandra Kay plays]