Yes, all the stock characters and storylines are there (Helen Hunt's character
becomes a storm chaser because of the trauma suffered when her father got sucked into a tornado), but tornado season in Oklahoma is a lot like a real - life disaster movie.
We get familiar tropes, such as a single dad trying to find his sons, a teenage boy who is too shy to ask the school's beauty out but ends up
becoming a hero in her eyes, and rival
storm chasers (a truly annoying pair of «reality show» - caliber, stereotypical rednecks) who muck things up more often than not.