MOLINE, Ill. — We've all likely seen at least one tornado in our lifetime, whether it be via a video or in person. One thing the majority of those tornadoes have in common? The direction in which they ...

FARGO — About 98% of all tornadoes spin cyclonically, which in the Northern Hemisphere is counter-clockwise and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. This is because tornadoes tend to follow the ...

Winds always rotate in a counterclockwise sense around hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere. Winds in tornadoes usually rotate counterclockwise, but in perhaps five percent of tornadoes, clockwise ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — We've all seen the images of hurricanes swirling in the ocean from outer space, but have you ever wondered why hurricanes spin? The answer is the Coriolis effect. As the Earth spins, ...

South Dakota doesn't get a lot of tornadoes, but a twister there last weekend was particularly rare -- because it was spinning clockwise. The National Weather Service says the anticyclonic tornado ...

Most of our weather comes from a force that doesn't actually exist. It just looks that way because we're standing on a rotating, spherical planet. You may have even heard of the coriolis effect before ...