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Why can't tornadoes have names?

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∙ 13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Tornadoes are simply too numerous and happen too quickly to be named. In an average year the United States is hit by more than 1200 tornadoes. The National Weather Service would very quickly run out of names. By contrast, there are usually not much more than a dozen tropical storms or hurricanes in a given ocean basin in a year.

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