Twisters Ending Explained: Do Kate & Tyler Tame The Tornadoes?

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Twisters

Summary Kate's formula successfully disrupts tornadoes, preventing further damage and casualties.

Kate, Tyler, and Javi become business partners to advance tornado research.

Twisters' ending sets up potential sequel with focus on challenges faced by the trio.

Twisters’ ending confirms Kate’s formula for diffusing a tornado is a success. Nearly 30 years after the original Twister released in theaters, the new sequel, directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, brings audiences back to Oklahoma, this time during a twister outbreak that has gotten more deadly and devastating. Twisters’ reviews have been mostly positive, and the Twister sequel’s cast is a star-studded one. The film’s ending sees an Oklahoma town nearly devastated by a powerful tornado.

While Javi, who quit his job with Storm Par, and Tyler are helping people to safety and shelter, Kate decides to take Tyler’s car in a bid to release the formula she perfected into the tornado to disrupt its path of destruction. Kate’s truck tips over and the button to release the formula jams, but she’s finally able to do it and it helps dissipate the tornado faster, preventing further damage and death. At the end of Twisters, Kate is on her way back to New York when severe winds delay her flight, and she rejoins Tyler and Javi.

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Kate Stays In Oklahoma To Partner Up With Tyler & Javi

Kate changes her mind about flying out

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Kate decides against returning to New York. She was going back, not to her office job, but to pitch her formula and its abilities to someone who’d be willing to invest in it for further research. Having been competitive before, Kate and Javi work together with Tyler and his team to better Kate’s scientific advancements to disrupt incoming tornadoes in the area. In Twisters’ credits scenes, meteorology reports and publications track Kate, Tyler and Javi’s progress as they become the face of meteorology and twister destruction prevention.

While it’s unclear if Kate ever returned to New York, Twisters’ ending confirms her research and the team’s work together continues to progress. Perhaps Tyler’s YouTube channel made their work well-known, and they were able to get money that way. Tyler has millions of subscribers, and his appeal to them is likely heightened, knowing he can help Kate disrupt tornadoes. Kate also becomes the primary subject of Ben’s story, and he continues to follow the storm chasers around. By the end, the now business partners have made a lot of headway in their field and continue to improve their research.

How Kate’s Formula Disrupts Tornadoes Explained

There's a lot of science involved

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Kate’s formula required the launch of silver iodine into the tornado to produce rain, after which sodium polyacrylate is released to absorb the water (it’s also cooler because of its evaporation), disrupting the twister’s system and essentially cutting off its fuel. This specific formula helps to choke out the tornado, upsetting it and causing it to ultimately disperse. A big part of the reason Kate’s formula didn’t work at the start of Twisters was because it was used on an unanticipated F5 category tornado. But with updated technology and models, Kate was able to better predict how it’d disrupt tornadoes.

With Kate's formula, the way scientists and meteorologists interact with tornadoes will be different.

Are Tyler & Kate In Love After Twisters?

The expectation of an airport kiss was certainly there

After bidding him goodbye, Tyler asks when he’s going to see Kate again. She doesn’t know, but tells him that if he feels it, he should chase it. That’s what he does, heading into the airport to find her before they leave together. While Kate and Tyler don’t kiss — though Twisters had me questioning if they will — the pair flirted with each other throughout the film. Kate and Tyler really seemed to like each other from the start and, with the pair now business partners with Javi, it’s likely they’re growing closer and falling in love.

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Despite the lack of physical affection, Tyler and Kate had a connection and Tyler was especially mesmerized by Kate and her ability to track tornadoes. She was clearly intrigued by him as well, and came to rely on him to help. Tyler could have let Kate go to New York, but he didn’t want to; Kate, too, didn’t really want to go back. By the end of Twisters, the two had grown close. If they weren’t falling for each other, Kate wouldn’t have asked Tyler to chase her if he felt something, and he wouldn’t have immediately obliged.

Why Javi Officially Leaves Storm Par At The End Of Twisters

Javi was genuinely feeling guilty near the end of the film

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Javi felt just as guilty about the deaths of his best friends five years prior, and he primarily joined Storm Par as a misguided way for him to help. It would’ve been hard for him to use updated technology to track twisters if not for Riggs providing Javi and the company a much-needed financial boost. At the end of the day, though, Javi realized he wasn’t really helping people; he was only helping Riggs capitalize on people’s pain. He wasn’t helping prevent or disrupt tornadoes, nor was he aiding the people hurt by the destruction of the natural disaster.

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Javi leaves Storm Par because he realizes he could be doing a lot more to aid others. Just like he encouraged Kate to storm chase again, Javi reconnected with his own past and desire to help people before making a firm decision to put Storm Par behind him. Javi saw a way out thanks to Kate’s research and use of the formula to dissipate twisters. It made him hopeful that something could still be done to genuinely help, and he could be a part of that. Money for research was different from working for someone who preyed on helpless people.

How Twisters’ Ending Sets Up A Sequel

Twisters’ ending saw Kate, Tyler, and Javi becoming business partners. Together, they found their calling. And while Twisters’ credits scene reveals their continued research towards advancing the disruption of a tornado’s destruction, a sequel could focus on the challenges the trio faces in the field. After all, Twisters established storm chaser influencers like Tyler, who went up against corporate storm chasers like Storm Par, while Kate represented the more traditional research side of things. The three may have merged in some way, but Twisters leaves the door open enough to see where the storm chasing takes the characters next.

What’s more, the sequel’s ending leaves Tyler and Kate’s romantic relationship unconfirmed. A Twisters sequel could follow the duo in the next stage of their relationship - perhaps exploring how they balance a romance with their scientific work. The last time Kate was in a relationship with a research partner, he died chasing tornadoes. The Twisters sequel could delve into that aspect of her past and what it means for her relationship with Tyler. Kate may have solved how to disrupt tornadoes, but there’s potential for another chapter, especially as there will likely be more deadly tornadoes forming in the future.

The Real Meaning Of Twisters’ Ending

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Twisters’ ending highlights the importance of teamwork when doing scientific research, as well as the importance of research that isn’t tied to corporate and real estate greed. Kate wanted to genuinely help people, and though Tyler was initially more invested in storm chasing for the thrill and attention, he and Javi realized the significance and responsibility of the work on a more grounded level. Twisters acknowledges increasing destructive weather and the urgency to do something about it, as well as how money that isn’t being used for research and aiding people without exploiting them isn’t worth having.