In “Twisters,” Kate has an impressive intuition when it comes to chasing storms. By merely observing various weather elements, be it in person or on a radar, she has incredible instincts about which storms will yield the most satisfying results for collecting helpful data. Even the film’s score utilizes a graceful piano theme when Kate starts honing in on a storm’s traits to determine where the tornado is going to form and shift. It’s like she has tornado vision.

In that way, she’s very much like the character played by Bill Paxton (who had a “Twister” sequel idea of his own at one point). There’s even a moment when she gets a line that calls back to his character, also named Bill. In the original “Twister,” Bill meets up with Helen Hunt’s character Jo in order to get their divorce papers signed. While there, Jo’s team keeps welcoming Bill back to the storm chasing scene, prompting him to say, “I’m not back!” more than a couple times. In “Twisters,” after Kate’s first foray back into the world of storm chasing, Javi mentions that it’s good to have her back, and she says, “I’m not back.”

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However, Kate’s ambitions also make her similar to Jo. In the original “Twister,” Jo carries the childhood trauma of seeing her father sucked into a tornado, and it fuels her passion for giving people a more significant warning window to avoid any further tragedy and death. While a similar trauma chased Kate away from the tornado scene, she still harbors the hopes of figuring out how to help people by further understanding what makes a tornado tick and the conditions that might allow one to be dissipated by pure science.

Ultimately, the genuine love that Tyler has for storm chasing, the data collected by Javi’s upscale team, and Kate’s own passion to help people bring her back to those original ambitions. It also helps that while she’s trying to pull all of this off, she’s often sporting various tank tops that get inevitably dirty, not unlike Jo in the original “Twister.”

But there’s another element of “Twisters” that could have directly cemented Kate’s legacy as the next generation of storm chasers.