Since they've been working on modifying the weather for 133 years....I'm betting that whipping up, and controlling a Hurricane or Tsunami shouldn't be that hard right now.
https://zerogeoengineering.com/2021/list-of-100-us-patents-related-to-weather-modification/
The Navy has a patent from the late 1960s on an aircraft with a mercury plasma engine similar to the reported TR3B. So weather mods is not a giant step.