But, while no OG Twister characters pop up or are even referenced ... they call "Dorothy machines" (based on a real-life called TOTO, which stands for TOtable Tornado Observatory).

and her little dog Toto attempt to run away from home to escape the clutches of Miss Gulch (Margaret Hamilton) when the dark clouds and blowing winds produce a tornado. “It’s a twister!

When the original "Twister" movie debuted in 1996 ... Dorothy was based on a real device, TOTO, that never got unleashed inside a tornado. Even if it had, "we didn't have the bandwidth to know ...