[1][2] In the film, Fin Shepard travels to New York with April Wexler and attempts to stop a group of sharknadoes that appear there.

While Fin lands the plane, April's hand is severed while she attempts to shoot a shark with an air marshal's handgun.

Ellen takes their daughter, Mora, to the Statue of Liberty, where she meets with her friends, Polly and Chrissie, who tell her about Fin's recent appearance.

After leaving April to the hospital for surgery, Fin is able to contact Ellen, and tells her to get to the Bales Tower Hotel on Manhattan as soon as possible.

The game is cancelled because of the storm, but when sharks start falling from the sky and killing people, Fin and his group improvise weapons to fight them and go to the subway.

Meanwhile, the subway tunnels flood, sending sharks to break into the train's rear cabin and kill Brian.

When the taxi is caught in a flood, Fin forms a rope swing to take Skye, Vaughn, and Martin to safety.

When Ben is killed in his attempt and the rope falls away, Fin uses the top of the sharks as stepping stones to reach the others.

Fin and Skye sling bombs into the tornadoes, but as the storm system is too cold; only a few sharks are knocked down, and they are forced to flee down a fire exit stairwell.

Fin plans to detonate a tank of Freon at the top of the building by connecting it to the structure's lightning rod to halt the storm.

As he and Skye implement the plan, April, who has affixed a circular saw to her stump, arrives and saves Fin from a falling shark.

While in the twister, Fin grabs onto and rides a great white shark using chains, eventually impaling it on the building's antenna.

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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 61% rating based on 31 critics; the consensus states: "The schlock factor for Sharknado 2: The Second One is not as entertaining as its predecessor's, though fans of the brand will likely enjoy it.

[29] It aired on the promised date, followed by Lavalantula, which debuted July 25, 2015, the Saturday after Sharknado 3's Wednesday premiere.