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| “ | If you feel it, chase it! | „ |
| ~ Kate Carter |
Kate Carter is the main protagonist of the 2024 disaster film Twisters. She is a meterologist and former storm chaser, who retires from her hobby after an incident killed her friends. Now five years later, Kate is called back into action to face and study freak recurring tornadoes.
She was portrayed by Daisy Edgar Jones.
History[]
Kate Carter works in Oklahoma with storm chasers Javi, Addy, Praveen, and her boyfriend, Jeb. Alongside a Dorothy V doppler, the team launches barrels of sodium polyacrylate beads into a tornado in hopes of reducing its intensity and securing funding for further research. However, the amount of chemicals is insufficient to stop it and the crew is caught in the middle as it grows into an EF5. Addy, Praveen, and Jeb are killed, while Kate and Javi survive.
Five years later, Kate works at a NOAA office in New York City. Javi, working for mobile tornado radar company Storm Par, offers Kate a one-week position with his team to test a new tornado scanning system using phased-array radar. Kate only accepts after Javi sends a news report about a tornado destroying a town. Kate and Javi join the Storm Par team in Oklahoma, which includes Javi's business partner Scott. Popular YouTube storm chaser Tyler Owens, known as the "Tornado Wrangler", also arrives in Oklahoma from Arkansas looking to capitalize on a predicted tornado outbreak.
Storm Par and Tyler's crew chase an EF1 tornado that has touched down in a nearby wind farm. Kate suffers a panic attack, rendering her unable to help Javi set up the final scanner; she instead drives away. The team tracks another storm which produces another EF1, that also produces a Satellite that splits off. Storm Par chases the Satellite after noticing that it is intensifying, but as it reaches EF3 strength, it takes out the third scanner. Kate and Javi barely escape and drive to the nearby tornado-ravaged town of Crystal Springs to help recovery efforts, along with Tyler's crew. Having dismissed Tyler and his team as glory hounds, Kate is surprised to learn they use merchandise profits to aid tornado victims, while Storm Par investor Marshall Riggs profiteers by purchasing tornado-damaged land.
Kate and Tyler bond when he takes her to a rodeo and they find common ground in their interests and upbringing. However, a devastating storm suddenly emerges and they both try to flee to safety. Kate and Tyler find a mother and her child and get them to safety in an empty swimming pool until the storm ends. Hours later, Javi arrives to check on Kate and she confronts him over his deal with Riggs. She drives off to visit her mother's farm.
Tyler follows Kate and finds out about her research project but she is reluctant to talk about it over guilt. He is fascinated by her research and suggests it could actually work. They find a local storm to test the theory but realize they need silver iodide to make it work better.
They track another hurricane to test out the theory and encounter Javi and Storm Parr. However, this storm is powerful and derails Javi, who abandons his team to go with Tyler and Kate who want to head to the local town to help them before the tornado hits. While in the town, they help the locals get to safety while the tornado rips through the streets. Kate leaves Tyler and Javi to drive off in her truck, taking the sodium polyacrylate mix and iodide with her in an attempt to stop the tornado.
She drives right into the eye of the hurricane and releases the mixture, her truck overturning in the process. Eventually it works and the tornado collapses, saving the town. Javi, Tyler (with his team) rush over to congratulate and check on her.
Sometime later, Javi drops Kate off at the airport as she is set to present her successful (yet unrecorded) research of tornadoes in New York. Tyler also comes to say goodbye and she repeats his slogan back to him "if you feel it, chase it" and she departs. Tyler, taking her words to heart runs over before she's about to board. When the PA announces flight delays due to severe weather, the pair rush to chase the storm.
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