Other mistake: Less than a few minutes into the film, there is a shot of a dark sky looking through a barbed wire fence with yellow wildflowers at the bottom of the frame. The flowers start blowing in the wind, and then snap back to the beginning of the shot. Just before the shot cuts, the wildflowers move again, repeating the action earlier. The shot is looped.
Continuity mistake: Right before the tree gets stuck on the axle of the red truck, there is a shot of the car turning. The tires are already chewed up from the scene coming up where they try to take off.
Continuity mistake: When the tornado at the drive-in makes the sign with the titles of the movies fall, the arrow on the upper part of the sign is pointing to the left. However, when the upper sign detaches and heads into the garage, the arrow is pointing to the right.
Suggested correction: It's during a tornado. Things are going to be blown every which way.
Visible crew/equipment: Near the beginning, Jo is in Beltzer's van fixing a wire. At the beginning of this shot, the camera moves down from high before she opens the door. As it's doing this, you can make out a reflection of it on the glass.
Audio problem: When Dusty is yelling for Melissa to look at the camera shot, he says "oh my God, oh my God." His mouth doesn't match up. He looks to be saying something far worse.
Continuity mistake: The sky changes multiple times when they turn onto "Bob's road", right after nearly running into Jonas' team. It goes from being very cloudy and gloomy to blue sky to cloudy and gloomy again in the space of seconds.
Continuity mistake: After Jo's truck is damaged, they switch to Bill's truck that has a cap on the bed, but the next scene shows Dorothy in an open bed of the truck. What did they do with the cap? You don't see it lying on the ground as the vehicles pull away.
Continuity mistake: During the movie theater scene all the vehicles except the bus and red truck are destroyed, but during the F-5 scenes all the vehicles are there.
Suggested correction: The vehicles remaining after the drive-in scene are Bill's red truck, Beltzer's van, Joey/Lawrence's Chevy truck, and Dusty's bus.
Continuity mistake: After the first tornado when Jo's truck is destroyed, you see Bill's truck with a shell on it. When their group is leaving the scene, the shell is gone and one of the Dorothys is in the bed. Where did the shell go?
Suggested correction: ANSWER; As some time elapses between the tornado aftermath and leaving the scene, there are plenty of reasons why the shell moved.
Visible crew/equipment: At Aunt Meg's house, Jo is taking a shower. There are two shots of her washing her hair. In the second one, the camera is blatantly reflected in the glass, left screen.
Other mistake: During the movie, some characters wear a headset to communicate (Rabbit, Joey, Dusty, Jo, Jonas). Nothing wrong there, but they also use the CB radio/mic in addition to using the headset. And it's not so they can hear conversations better, since Rabbit and Jonas use the mic on their headsets 99% of the time. There are also instances where you can hear conversations from some of these characters when they don't use the CB radio, so the only mic that makes sense is from the headset.
Factual error: When they left Meg's house heading east towards Garfield county there are Texas county road signs.
Other mistake: How come it's the sunniest day ever a few feet from an F5 tornado?
Continuity mistake: The tornado before the one that destroys the drive-in theater rips power poles out of the ground. When Bill and Jo are arguing, we see a long shot of the road where the tornado was. The power poles are in place as if nothing happened.
Continuity mistake: When Dusty tries to get Melissa to watch a tornado through a camera, the way she holds her umbrella changes between cuts. Sometimes it's on her left shoulder, sometimes it's on her right.
Continuity mistake: When Dusty watches a tornado through a camera, the way he holds the camera changes between cuts.
Other mistake: While in Wakita, in northern Oklahoma, the crew see the report of the F-3, and it was 30 minutes away. They meet the tornado in Texas, several hours away.
Suggested correction: The tornado is actually 30 miles away, not 30 minutes. Quite a difference for time.
Visible crew/equipment: As the camera pans up to Jo on top of the van, the camera rig is reflected on the side.
Other mistake: Near the end after Bill and Jo have jumped out of the truck, their crew sees the truck and Dorothy go up in the tornado, they are receiving telemetry, then one of them notices the tornado shift direction and the crew still tries to notify Bill and Jo by radio, knowing they're no longer in the truck nor have radio communications.
Suggested correction: Jo still has her headset on. The crew can probably communicate with her that way, but she may not have been able to hear them since they were so close to the tornado in the cornfield.
Continuity mistake: When the tanker explodes in front of the red truck, they swerve and go through the blaze. Helen's window was down before the blaze, but up when they emerged. And the cracks in the windshield change, then change back.
