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There is no required pressure at which a tornado forms. Large scale low pressure systems play a role in tornado formation, but the low pressure is not a direct cause of tornadoes. On rare occasions, tornadoes can form with air mass thunderstorms that occur in the absence of a large-scale weather system. There is low pressure inside a tornado, but in this case the important part is not how low the pressure inside the tornado is, but how much lower the pressure is outside the tornado. The range of these pressure deficits is not known as very few measurements have been taken.

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