Kate Carter works in Oklahoma with her storm chaser friends Javi, Addy, Praveen, and her boyfriend, Jeb. Alongside a Dorothy V doppler, the team launches barrels of sodium polyacrylate beads into a tornado in hopes of reducing its intensity and securing funding for further research. However, the attempt is unsuccessful due to the tornado suddenly intensifying into an EF5, killing Jeb, Addy and Praveen while Javi and Kate survive, the latter blaming herself for underestimating the tornado and quitting storm chasing and the experiment altogether. Five years later, Kate works at a NOAA office in New York City. Javi, now working for mobile tornado radar company Storm Par, offers Kate a one-week position with his team to test a new tornado scanning system using phased-array radar. Kate initially declines but has a change of heart after Javi sends a news report about a tornado destroying a town without warning and assuring her that they have a chance to save lives. Kate and Javi join the Storm Par team in Oklahoma, which includes Javi's business partner Scott. Popular YouTube storm chaser Tyler Owens, known as the "Tornado Wrangler", also arrives in Oklahoma from Arkansas looking to capitalize on a predicted tornado outbreak. Tyler is joined by his crew of Boone, Dani, Dexter, and Lily, as well as British journalist Ben.

Javi: Notices you

Kate: Looks at Javi and gets Concerned About what he is Looking at

Tyler Owens: Talking with his team

The rest of Storm Par: Talking together while drinking