More often associated with bad puns than action-adventures; Twisters puts meteorologists in the Hollywood limelight. It isn’t not shocking, then, that it just might be your local weatherperson’s favorite movie.

Weather readers and enthusiasts have been enthralled with the spectacle and bad science of Twister for nearly 30 years. Scientific-American talks with some real tornado experts to get their take.

With excitement high over the recent release of the film’s stand-alone sequel, Twisters, Scientific American reached out to tornado experts Rick Smith and Jana Houser to chat about why so many in the weather community love the original movie, what they think about the new sequel and what the ups and downs of studying tornadoes are. Smith is warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s (NWS’s) office in Norman, Okla., who was consulted for Twisters and appears in the film as an extra. And Houser is a meteorologist at the Ohio State University who provided forecast and other support to the new movie’s cinematographers when storm chasing to film real storm backgrounds and clouds.

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