The Twister: Caught In The Storm - Everything we know about the upcoming docufilm on the 2011 Joplin tornado

Netflix is coming up with The Twister: Caught in the Storm to show us the havoc Mother Nature wreaked over Joplin, Missouri, in 2011. The coming-of-age documentary got a trailer last night, having garnered over 130K views at the time of writing.

Following the release, people, including the ones who actually witnessed the natural disaster, began sharing their experiences, telling us how it changed the lives of the survivors forever.

Available data sheds light on the impact in the affected regions that were left with around 8,000 destroyed buildings, over 1,000 injuries, and 158 deaths. To date, it still remains the worst nightmare for Missouri.

It was estimated to cost the state around $3 billion, surpassing the $2 billion mark during the tornado outbreak in 2001. Not just that, the Joplin tornado gave the state 3 million cubic yards worth of debris. This was only one of the environmental impacts that emerged following the event.

Everything we know about The Twister: Caught in the Storm

The latest Netflix documentary is brought to us by Raw TV, a British television production company known for Gold Rush, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, The Tinder Swindler, and more.

Regarding the release, The Twister: Caught in the Storm will land on the streaming platform on March 19, 2025. That makes it the third documentary coming on Netflix in the month, with the other two being Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta and Chaos: The Manson Murders.

Alexandra Lacey, who is known for Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me, Manson: The Lost Tapes, The Fake Sheikh, and more, has written and directed The Twister: Caught in the Storm, while Chasing the Equinox's Carla Grande is producing it.

Though we already know what's coming in The Twister: Caught in the Storm, Netflix's brief will give us more clarity on it. It reads,

"In May 2011, a massive tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri. With pulse-pounding firsthand footage, this documentary goes inside a deadly twister."

Jeff Piotrowski, who spent all afternoon chasing that storm on May 22, 2011, with his wife, shared it over his X (formerly Twitter) handle, writing that,

"We’ve been silent for over a year in anticipation of this extraordinary movie The Twister - Caught in the Storm."

The fans will get to see the exclusive footage contributed by the storm chaser in the documentary too.

What was shown in the trailer?

The documentary still has around a month before we see it, but the trailer gives us a fair few glimpses of what kind of content fans will witness in The Twister: Caught in the Storm.

It begins with a narration telling how life was going well and nobody had the slightest idea that their life was about to be changed, and for some, end. The scenes went from light to dark within seconds; that actually happened when the storm actually brewed.

Joplin storm survivors later tell their experiences while The Twister: Caught in the Storm trailer keeps giving the fans glimpses of the tornado. One of them claims that they actually felt their bodies lifting when they were in the eye.

Naturally, the experience in the eye is likely to be frightening, but this natural phenomenon, for a second, looked beautiful in the trailer, like it's the eye of the Night King from Game of Thrones.

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