OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Meteorologists say warmer weather has brought unusual November weather to Iowa and Nebraska: tornadoes.

The National Weather Service says as many as four tornadoes were reported Monday afternoon in central and northeast Iowa, while three were spotted Sunday in south-central Nebraska. The storms caused light damage and no injuries in both states.

Rich Thompson with the Storm Prediction Center said Tuesday that it’s rare for tornadoes to form so far north and west in late fall. He says warmer weather allowed the typical storm track to move north.

National Weather Service statistics show that only seven tornadoes have hit Nebraska in November since 1950. In Iowa, 41 tornadoes were reported in November between 1980 and 2015.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts is defending a proposal that would allow the state to obtain lethal injection drugs without disclosing its supplier.

Ricketts said Tuesday that the new protocol would allow greater flexibility for the Department of Correctional Services, which hasn’t executed an inmate since 1997 and has never done so using the current three-drug protocol.

The administrative proposal announced Monday would allow the state corrections director to choose which drugs are used in an execution and withhold the name of the supplier.

Ricketts argues that the changes are already allowed under a 2009 state law which changed the protocol from electrocution to lethal injection. That law allows the identities of “all members of the execution team” to remain confidential.

Death penalty opponents say they plan to fight the proposal.

SARGENT, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a passenger has died after the car she was in swerved to avoid a deer on Thanksgiving Day.

The accident occurred a little after 4 p.m. Thursday on U.S. Highway 183, about three miles south of Sargent.

The Nebraska State Patrol says that after driver Virgil Ramsdell swerved, the car ran into a ditch and rolled.

The patrol says Ramsdell and his passenger, 56-year-old Becky Millard, of Sargent, were taken to a Broken Bow hospital. She was declared dead there.

RIVERTON, Neb. (AP) — A former village clerk in south-central Nebraska has taken a plea deal in her theft case.

Online court records say 31-year-old Kelly Jackson pleaded no contest Monday to misdemeanor theft. Prosecutors had lowered the charge from a felony in exchange for her plea. Jackson’s sentencing is set for Feb. 13.

Court documents say an audit by the Nebraska state auditor’s office alleges that Jackson paid herself $15,830 more than her monthly approved income of $400.

Several former and current board members told investigators that a village official signed blank checks so Jackson could pay city bills. Officials say that Jackson instead wrote checks to herself.