Atomic Twister

A tornado strikes a nuclear power plant in a small Tennessee town, crippling the cooling system and leaving the reactor at risk of a meltdown. The plant's shift supervisor, Corrine Maguire, is on site when the storm hits, cut off with a reduced weekend crew, while firefighters and staff struggle to restart a backup pump before the fuel rods overheat. With the facility isolated from the outside world, more twisters close in on the town and the surrounding area. Corrine also has personal worries: her son Campbell is missing after the storm damages their home, and a neighbour, Deputy Jake Hannah, goes looking for him.

Atomic Twister is a 2002 television action drama directed by Bill Corcoran, written by Ron McGee and produced by Richard J. Anobile, Ron McGee and Richard D. Arredondo. It is Corcoran's third feature in the chronological list of his directing work, following Outlaw Justice in 1999 and Quints in 2000, and it came before Vipers in 2008 and A Widow Seduced in 2024. Sharon Lawrence plays Corrine, with Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Jake, Daniel Costello as Campbell and Charmaine Guest as Ashley Bishop; the credited cast runs to 26 names and the crew to 86.

The film runs 86 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.1 out of 10 from about 1,900 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.4 out of 10 from 39 votes.