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The film almost averted this during an earlier scene that had a tornado tear a wall off the protagonist's house while the funnel cloud was still hundreds of yards away. The heroes outrun a tornado's funnel cloud that was literally right on their bumper during the finale.

Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: The last part of the movie violates this trope egregiously.

A Storm Is Coming: Done often with seeing tornadoes on a rampage with mileage distance from the town where the movie is set.

Anachronism Stew: The Tornado warning sirens are old stock sound effects of air raid sirens from World War II.

Minetti, the matron of the jail at the police station.

Officer Kelly, an officer that Dan, Arthur and Stacey help after he loses his eyesight to flying glass.

Smiley, an old lady that lives next door to the Hatches.

Minerva, the Hatch family cat that ultimately dies in the first tornado.

Adapted Out: The film excludes a few characters from the book, including:.

After the tornado has passed them, Danny struggles to reunite his family as the night wears on and more tornadoes ravage the town. While at home babysitting, Danny's stepfather leaves to check on their grandmother, and soon after, a monster tornado bears down on the home.

The plot follows a teenage boy named Danny Hatch ( Devon Sawa), who along with his mother (Lori Hallier), stepfather ( John Schneider), baby brother, and his best friend Arthur ( Amos Crawley) find themselves in the middle of a unusual violent tornado outbreak at an unusual time.

Much of the movie omits these facts and alters them. The movie is based on a novel by the same name by Ivy Ruckman, which in turn is loosely based on a real-life 1980 tornado outbreak in Grand Island, Nebraska. John Schneider and Devon Sawa Night of the Twisters is a made-for-TV Disaster Movie that first aired on The Family Channel (now Freeform) in 1996, the first of many for the channel.