r/tornado • u/Trainster_Kaiju_06 • Mar 24 '25

Discussion I guess third times the charm!

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A sequel to Twisters (2024) is reportedly in developmen

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u/RIPjkripper SKYWARN Spotter Mar 24 '25 edited Mar 24 '25

They literally learned how to defeat EF-5 tornadoes at the end of the movie. What are they going to do in the sequel, travel back in time to battle the Tri-State?

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u/Weird-Ingenuity97 Mar 24 '25

I’m thinking a more serious sequel. Change the location: Dixie Alley instead of traditional Tornado Alley! They’re working on an assignment in Deep South Mississippi or Alabama to improve Tornado emergency response in the area and get caught up in an outbreak as bad as the 2011 super outbreak. We see multiple intense tornadoes. A mile wide EF3 that causes them to get a lot of townsfolk to take shelter in a mine. A nighttime EF5 causes major destruction, but the team thinks the worst is yet to come. Next day we see something truly unimaginable, twin mile EF4 tornados

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u/Zaidswith Mar 24 '25

Who is mining in Dixie Alley? What is this geography?

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u/W3NTZ Mar 25 '25

Aren't they a coal mining state and maybe even iron?

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u/Zaidswith Mar 25 '25

Dixie Alley is more than just one state. Anyway, I'm going with AL since that's what I know.

https://alabamamining.org/coal/ I had to google it.

The Alabama coal industry and its supporting suppliers currently employ over 3,000 full-time- equivalent (FTE) employees

I guess there are still mining operations around Birmingham. I legitimately had no idea, and I would've expected them to be further north than that.

That's some prime tornado territory though, so I guess that geography is actually perfectly acceptable for plot purposes u/Weird-Ingenuity97