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Can a tornado be up to 500 miles big?

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No. The widest tornado ever recorded was 2.5 miles wide. Compared with other types of storm tornadoes are actually rather small.

Hurricanes, however, can be 500 miles wide or more, but they are in an entirely different class of storm.

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