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You're right - water vapor can exist at temperatures such as $\pu{50^\circ C}$. This is a phenomenon known as evaporative cooling, where molecules of water with higher kinetic energies tend to "release" themselves from the system, and as a result, less and less water molecules are held within that system.

Temperature is a sort of proxy for kinetic energy, and vice versa. Reference, also, the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, which reveals that at $\pu{100^\circ C}$, for example, not all molecules in the system possess the kinetic energy that they would at $\pu{100^\circ C}$, but rather the average exists at that temperature.

To answer your question, never in a real scenario.


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