At a late-night New York screening of “Twisters,” I watch as a group of college students chase a Category 5 tornado as it ravages rural Oklahoma. As the twister picks up speed, the crew abandons its ...

Tornadoes are a relatively rare event. Only a tiny percentage of thunderstorms ever go on to produce a tornado. No two twisters are alike—and some of those storms are truly bizarre. From twin ...

He found it in "Twister," a movie about professional storm chasers who increasingly encounter more dangerous tornadoes over the course of the film. De Bont, from the very beginning, knew that he ...