Daisy Edgar-Jones is Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser scarred by a devastating tornado she encountered during her college years, who now studies storm patterns in New York. She is drawn back to the open plains by her friend, Javi, to test an innovative tornado tracking system. There, she meets Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social media superstar who revels in being able to post the adventure of storm-chasing with his equally reckless crew in the model of the more dangerous the better.

As storm season intensifies, never-before-seen terrifying phenomena unfold, and Kate, Tyler, and their competing teams find themselves directly in the path of storms converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.