tornadoes and hurricanes?

Question

are they in any way similar, being that a hurricane is a giant storm system, and tornadoes come from storms, even hurricane created storms.Help out please

Answer 1

They're similar in that both rotate and move across the Earth's surface. You could almost say that a hurricane is a huge tornado, or that a tornado is a highly-concentrated hurricane. Also, both have thunderstorms as "parents." Hurricanes commonly spawn tornadoes, but not vice versa.

Answer 2

e hurricane can spin off Tornado's, but a Tornado can not spin off a hurricane. Hurricanes are very slow moving and come from long distances usually off the coast of Africa heading in the general direction of Florida, they have now 4 computer models that they use for a possible track and usually you have a lot of time to get out of the way. But tornado's you have just minutes to get out of the way, well actually not out of the way but in a basement or under a mattress and cover up! The other thing is the winds from a tornado are much higher than hurricane's, hurricanes start at 75 mph and gather spped when traveling over warm water, and lose speed when traveling over land, but a tornado can get to 200mph in a new york minute! Hope this helps, I have been in 7 hurricanes, but never a tornado!

Answer 3

Both tornadoes and hurricanes are wind storms; however, the speed of tornadic winds are much higher. A hurricane is a much bigger and more complex storm than a tornadoe; a hurricane may actually help to set tornadoes in motion. The destruction in a hurricane usually comes from the storm surge; the destruction from a tornado is usually the results of extremely high winds.

Answer 4

Tornadoes are smaller than their mother storm. Tornadoes are twisting columns of wind that are most likely spawned from the suction created when a supercell thunderstorm draws up warm air to work, causing the mass of cold air to drop down around it, forming the column that is classified as a tornado. However, very precise geometric and turbulence-dependent conditions apply to make a tornadic column spin.

Hurricanes are the entire storm itself. They are essentially a band of rotating rainstorms, which start out as thunderstorms over the sea. However, to make a hurricane spin, both the Coriolis effect and strong trade winds are required.
Before I explain the properties that those two work on a hurricane's rotational physics, let me say that the Coriolis effect is a phenomenon that states that everything that is near the equator travels faster than anything closer to the poles. So, a hurricane's large width is what causes one side to move across the Earth slower than the other, causing the two sides to rotate against one-another, causing the rotation. However, in order to set those different portions of the young hurricane travelling across the Earth, you need the trade winds. So, the rotational anatomy of a hurricane implies to a storm mass travelling across the sea, different portions travelling at different speeds, causing each portion to rotate against one-another, creating a rotating storm, the hurricane.

Answer 5

Hurricanes are big storms that form together make big gust of winds that form into one. It rains really bad and they form around large bodies of water in the south or the pacific. Tornadoes start as a hail storm and then form a huge gust of wind and sometimes it can accumulate into a huge twister and tear everything to shreds. That's what happen in Texas and Oklahoma. In Nashville, TN where I live we only had tornadoes and on big one come April 16, 1999. Three people died and a few others hospitalized. So that's how they start and end.

Answer 6

Tornado come from storms(supercell cloud)hurricane well form when cold air meets hot air.Hurricane got enough power to form a tornado or even more than 1.Heard of a hurricane that form the 'Tri-State-Tornado'

Answer 7

Both are spawned from storms, true. But a hurricane is much larger and is formed over the ocean where it gets it power from. A tornado is much more violent but not near as big, its winds are so much stronger than a hurricane

Answer 8

Hurricanes usually are just straight line wind, with storms. A tornado is cyclonic wind, usually spinning at faster rates than hurricanes. Living in Oklahoma, I've seen all kind of nightmarish places touched by a tornado. Oh, & not as much warning with tornados!

Answer 9

not really. they are created by two different things. Hurricanes travel usually from the west coast of Africa over the Atlantic and either pick up speed or get smaller and down grade to tropical storms (they all usually start out as trop Storms), Tornadoes spin off of thunder storms and are linked to storm systems that develop over the land

Answer 10

Hurricanes and tornadoes are only similar in that they cause extreme winds. However, the nature of the winds and the type of storms that cause each and the methods of their creation are completely different.