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Can tornadoes ever last a day?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

No. The longest a tornado is known to have lasted is 3 hours and 29 minutes. However, there are tornado outbreaks in which a storm system produces multiple tornadoes, sometimes over the course of a few days.

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