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Census-designated place in West Virginia, United States
1,081Population
17.2 sq miArea
614 ftElevation

Tornado, also called Upper Falls, is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. Four agencies of the United States government determine the official name of the community. The United States Postal Service established the Upper Falls of Coal Post Office in 1851, then replaced it with the Tornado Post Office in 1881 and today delivers mail within ZIP Code 25202 addressed to either Tornado or Upper Falls. The United States Board on Geographic Names authenticated the name of the community as Tornado in 1980, changed it to Upper Falls in 2010 and back to Tornado in 2013. After approving the replacement of the Tornado CDP with the much larger Upper Falls CDP …

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