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To be considered a tornado, a storm must

  1. Rotate
  2. Produce ground level winds strong enough to cause damage
  3. Be in contact with both the ground, and the cloud base of a parent storm
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Q: What characeristics does a storm have to have to be categoreized as a tornado?
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