Editing Wakita, Oklahoma (section)

==Popular culture==
Wakita was the setting of a 1984 television commercial about [[DuPont]]'s subsidiary [[Conoco]] using seismograph technology to search for oil. It was aired during the 1984 World Series. The voice over starts with, "Nothing much changes in Wakita, Oklahoma."

Wakita was featured in the 1996 blockbuster film ''[[Twister (1996 film)|Twister]]'' starring [[Helen Hunt]] and [[Bill Paxton]] in which Wakita was destroyed by an [[List of F4, EF4, and IF4 tornadoes|F4]] tornado that was part of a storm system later spawning an [[List of F5, EF5, and IF5 tornadoes|F5]] tornado. False fronts were built onto the existing store fronts for some shots and then were removed and replaced with rubble in the streets after the tornadic storm hit and the rest of the building was removed using [[Computer-generated imagery|CGI]].  Some original buildings were demolished and never replaced,<ref name="hummer">{{cite web|url=http://www.philberg.com/hummer_storm_chaser/post10.html|title=Hummer|accessdate=November 18, 2013}}</ref> with some of the bricks from the demolished buildings used to construct Twister Park.<ref name="park">{{cite web|url=http://www.twistercountry.com/11_twister_park.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041113010642/http://twistercountry.com/11_twister_park.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 13, 2004|title=11 twister park|accessdate=November 18, 2013}}</ref>  The Twister Museum, dedicated to movie memorabilia from Twister, opened a few months before the movie was released and remains a town attraction.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://tulsaworld.com/lifestyles/lingering-storm-revisit-wakita-20-years-after-twister/article_bb35f06f-a3b6-50cd-bd49-4d7a9297cc40.html |title= Lingering storm: Revisit Wakita 20 years after 'Twister' |publisher=Jimmie Tramel, Tulsa World, April 18, 2016|accessdate=August 17, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.twistercountry.com |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20031225031341/http://www.twistercountry.com/ |url-status= usurped |archive-date= December 25, 2003 |title=Homepage|publisher=Twister, The Movie MUSEUM|accessdate=August 17, 2021}}</ref>