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• Attention Tornado Alley dwellers: As violent storms were coursing around the Midwest, two "rare" versions were detected near Loveland, Oklahoma, Fox Weather reported.
Meteorologist Stephen Morgan acknowledged that "some strange things" popped up that night. Turns out, more than 98% of tornadoes spin in a counterclockwise direction.
But that night, two tornadoes -- technically called anticyclones -- were found to be spinning clockwise.
Morgan said the anticyclonic tornado "rotated around what you could call a 'normal' tornado. What we saw ... was very rare."
The anticyclones are typically smaller and weaker than cyclonic storms. There were no reports of injuries in the area. [Fox Weather, 5/2/2024]