Present Day

Year: 1996 ——————————————————————————————— RADIO: At 7:00 a.m. in Oklahoma City, the temperature is 75 degrees. Across the state, skies are partly cloudy, the dryline higher over western Oklahoma. Satellite pictures indicate thunderstorms developing........

Murphy: Bryce, take a look. {Holding a picture to her}Caps are starting to break.

Bryce: All the models are forecasting lifted indexes from minus six to minus ten.

Murphy: You know if these cells keep building like this we could have a record outbreak of tornadoes. Eats a doughnut.

Bryce :This is gonna be a long day.

The Camera moves on a red Dodge Ram truck bouncing down a dirt road between fields of wheat and an occasional oil drill. A crop duster flies over. Inside is BILL HARDING, and his fiancé, MELISSA.

Melissa: Um, honey, are you sure she's gonna be here?

Bill: If I know Jo, she's already dragged her entire department into the field. Ah, hell, a day like today, it's to be expected. She forgets everything except her work.

Melissa: You're nervous about seeing her, aren't you?

Bill: Nervous? No. Why, do I look nervous?

Melissa: No. Well, yeah you do, a little.

Bill: I just want to get it over with.

Melissa: But she said she signed the papers, right?

Bill: That's what she said. Melissa: You don't think so?

Bill: No, I think so. Give me a kiss. *They kiss. Camera over to JO HARDING, now grown up, on top of a blue van, wiring the Doppler radar. With her on her team are: DUSTY, RABBIT, BELTZER, HAYNES, SANDERS, LAURENCE, PREACHER, and JOEY. We hear music in background {Start music ("Talula")}.

Beltzer:{Inside Van, tapping on roof}Okay professor, hang on there, I think I fixed it. I've got it. {Jo tries turning on the Doppler radar dish, sparks fly}. Oops.

Jo: Frustrated Oh, fuck! This thing is useless!

Beltzer: Sorry, Jo. Suddenly it works.

Jo: Wait, wait, wait. Beltzer! Bangs roof with foot That's good. Give me a reading!

Suddenly you drive into the area with your black truck and stepping out out of your car