"The Twister: Caught in the Storm" is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of the EF-5 tornado that swept through Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. The film focuses on a group of young people from the area whose high school graduation day was affected by the tornado.

Violent tornadoes ripped through parts of the U.S., wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states.