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  2. A Meteorologist Weighs in on the Science Behind 'Twisters'

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    "In the original Twister, the idea of putting these Dorothy sensor balls into a tornado is completely science fiction, but it inspired a generation of people to want to do scientific research on ...

  3. How those 'Twisters' tornadoes got to look so real — and scary

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    How did you approach that from a story point of view? Tornado 1 is like the shark in "Jaws." You see it lurking in the cloud, you get glimpses, but we tried to make it mysterious and show this big ...

  4. The Real History Behind 'Twisters' - AOL

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    C entral to the plot of Twisters, the 2024 stand-alone sequel to the 1996 blockbuster Twister, is a scientific dream: researcher Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) wants to launch absorbent polymer ...

  5. History of tornado research - Wikipedia

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    On July 19, the hit disaster-film Twisters released, which included accurate scientific theories on ways to potentially disrupt tornadoes. [147] On July 30, Andrew Mercer, Kenneth Swan, and Adonte Knight with Mississippi State University published the first quantitative definition for how to define a tornado outbreak. The researchers also ...

  6. Junkyard tornado - Wikipedia

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    The Boeing 747 was not designed in a single unlikely burst of creativity, just as modern lifeforms were not constructed in one single unlikely event, as the junkyard tornado scenario suggests. The theory of evolution has been studied and tested extensively by numerous researchers and scientists and is the most scientifically accurate ...

  7. Talk:Twisters (film) - Wikipedia

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    Clearly not if you are saying it isn’t suppose to be scientifically accurate. USA Today article on Twister and Twisters accuracy. Also, check out this NOAA press release about the science behind the scenes of the movie or this article from KFOR , you know, describing how NOAA and actual meteorologists and research scientists made the movie ...

  8. Science behind 'Twisters': Can you really 'kill' a tornado ...

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    In "Twister" (1996), a barrel-shaped device called Dorothy was designed to go inside the tornado and send back data that would be used to create an advanced warning system.

  9. Night of the Twisters - Wikipedia

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    Night of the Twisters is a young adult realistic fiction novel by Ivy Ruckman that was released in 1984 by publisher Harper & Row (now HarperCollins).The book is a semi-fictionalized account of the 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak, which produced seven tornadoes (including three that rotated anti-cyclonically) in and around Grand Island, Nebraska, on the evening of June 3, 1980, killing five ...