Get a Unique Opportunity to Meet the REAL Storm Chasers!
Get ready to be blown away! We will be joining together our two theater locations for an exclusive Q&A session on July 20 for the film TWISTERS! We’ve invited meteorologists and storm-chasing experts to share their knowledge, evaluate the film’s accuracy, and recount the most thrilling moments of their careers. Don’t miss this whirlwind opportunity to learn from the best in the field!
Saturday, July 20 at 2PM PDT/ 5PM EDT
DR. JANA HOUSER, Expert Storm Chaser
Dr. Houser specializes in radar analysis of tornadoes and the supercell thunderstorms that commonly produce them by using state of the art mobile radar observations. She has authored or co-authored 19 peer reviewed journal articles related to tornadoes and supercells, most of which have been published by the American Meteorological Society.
She is currently funded by the National Science Foundation to study the interaction of tornadoes with the ground beneath, addressing the problem of how topography and land cover impact tornado intensity and path.
DR. SEAN WAUGH, Research Meteorologist
Dr. Waugh is a Research Meteorologist with the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory, who is a tornado researcher and was involved in the production of TWISTERS.
He has 27 research works with 440 citations, including: The Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) Project. Dr. Waugh is known for working on the mobile mesonet trucks at the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).
About the Film
Haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado, Kate Cooper gets lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi, to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. She soon crosses paths with Tyler Owens, a charming but reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures.
As storm season intensifies, Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves in a fight for their lives as multiple systems converge over central Oklahoma.
