A tornado kills a man's wife. Not just any man. Pete Jensen, a meteorologist turned cop with the supernatural ability to experience flashbacks from an event he wasn't present at. Lucky for the producers of this cheapie his flashbacks are the exact same footage we saw earlier while he was in another part of the state.
Despite returning to the site of the disaster ten years later for his estranged daughter's college graduation, he promptly dumps his grumpy offspring for a standby seat in the disaster cabin of a hurricane hunter plane. Father of the year material then risks his life chasing tornadoes and doing pretty much anything other than spending time with his daughter. Along the way he befriends Nicole Eggert, who is well cast as the most cliche news reporter since Lois Lane. I won't spoil what happens next, but the news reporter is easy, there's an irresponsibly managed communicable disease lab in the path of a storm, and our hero saves the day impressing his daughter along the way.
This made for TV cheapie is fairly good given the obvious budgetary limitations. The actors do the best they can on claustrophobic sets and in front of a green screen of a tornado while the sky is blue overhead. Like everything else the story isn't half bad, despite having kids on a field trip while a hurricane is bearing down on them. Five stars all the way around.
