Colonel Thomas Miller sends groups of fighter jets to destroy the storm, but they fail.
After extensive research, reporter Katherine Stern and meteorologist Nathan S. McCain counterpropose hitting the storm with a giant electromagnetic pulse (EMP), but the military is reluctant to go with the plan.
Miller suggests using a specially designed aircraft called Icarus to detonate the EMP.
Sloan Freer of Radio Times rated it 1/5 stars and called it an "increasingly ridiculous sci-fi yarn" with "a laughably unbelievable climax.
"[2] Matt Paprocki of Blogcritics called it a bland film that borrows from the Michael Crichton's novel Prey.