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Twisters asks if you can 'tame' a tornado. We have the answer

A meteorologist and the movie’s tornado consultant help separate fact from fiction

A horizontal still from the movie 'Twisters' a man and a woman stand next to each other in a field, backs to the camera, and share a look while an active tornado is nearby.

Storm chasers Tyler (Glen Powell, left) and Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones, right) observe a tornado in the field in Twisters, directed by Lee Isaac Chung.

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By Abby Wallace

What does it take to tame a tornado? That’s the scientific conundrum swirling through the plot of the new weather disaster film Twisters, which hits U.S.