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A.J. Cook and Faline England in Criminal Minds (2005)

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There's No Place Like Home

Criminal Minds

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Factual errors

As the team nears the unsub, Reid says that chasers get "in front" of the storm. In reality, in front of or in the path of a storm is the very worst place to be because the heavy rain blocks any view of the "action area", where tornadoes form. The best place to view a storm is called the "right flank", which is below and to the right of the storm. From this position, the inflow of air into the storm leaves a clear view of the action area and any potential tornadoes.
The "Oklahoma Department of Juvenile Corrections" header for Travis James on Garcia's screen was misspelled "Oaklahoma."
Garcia refers to a tornado near Tulsa as an "F2 cyclone." While both cyclones and tornadoes are atmospheric vortices, they otherwise have very little in common: tornadoes are relatively small in scale (measured in 100s of meters wide) and are primarily an over-land phenomenon formed by a single convective storm, while tropical cyclones are much larger - and purely oceanic - phenomena compromised of several to dozens of convective storms, which die out as they hit land and their moisture source is depleted. A tornado can measure in hundreds of meters across, while cyclones/hurricanes measure in the 100s of miles/kilometers. Additionally, the duration of a cyclone tends to be measured in days, while tornadoes generally last minutes at most. As such, the terms "tornado" and "cyclone" are hardly interchangeable.
The news report claims that an "F2" tornado hit Wichita. The events take place in 2011/2012. The Enhanced Fujita scale went into effect in 2007. No news organization would have made mention of an "F2" tornado, it would have been called an "EF2".
The unsub's RV has an Oklahoma license plate on the front. Front license plates are not used in Oklahoma. The plate also has no month or year sticker.

Revealing mistakes

The DOB of the unsub is listed as 1998. That would mean that he was 3 when he was arrested for his first crime and would be 13 in the current timeline.

Errors in geography

Toward the end, the RV is shown to be driving on a road that has "Bott's Dots"; tactile bumps used as center lane markers. These are only used in a handful of states where it rarely snows, California being where the Dots are most well known. They are not used anywhere in Kansas because they would tear up the snow plows.

Plot holes

Character error

The unsub is from Enid, OK, which Reid says is "just south of here," and JJ calls him a local. Wichita is about 50 miles north of the Oklahoma border. Enid is over 100 miles away from Wichita, not nearly close enough to be considered "local."

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