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Tornadoes do not have names. Some tornadoes are referred to by where they hit (e.g. the Oklahoma City tornado), but that is not a name.

Accurate worldwide records are not available, but the United States, which keeps the best tornado records, experiences about 1,200 tornadoes in an average year.

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