what are 2 differences between a tornado and a hurricane?

Answer 1

a hurricane is only formed over water, can grow as wide as 500 miles in diameter, has an eye that can be as small as 20 miles, and is most generally like a bulldozer to wherever it hits; this storm lasts for hours at minumum, and u see a hurricane coming from a long ways off.

a tornado: they are the closest thing mother nature has to an airstrike. they destroy anything in their way. the strongest 1's can have a 'reach' of 1/4 of a mile from the main funnel. they can be as small as 50 yards, to as wide as a mile. the record width for a tornado was 2 miles. happened in tx/ok in 1948. winds can be as 'weak' as a cat. 1 hurricane, or...as in the case of the 1 that engaged moore, ok on may 3rd, 1999, obliterate everything in reach with 318 mph winds.
tornadoes can ambush day or night, usually appears in the late afternoon. is notorious for coming out of nowhere suddenly.
tornadoes can, if they are an f-5, actually scoure asphalt. i've seen this firsthand after the devastating twister that hit niles, ohio on may 31st, 1985, and it was also seen after the tornado that obliterated jarrell, tx. back in '97.
tornado life span is measured from seconds, to minutes. hour long tornadoes are rare, and the 1's that do last that long are almost certain to be an f-4 or an f-5 in intensity.

Answer 2

Hurricanes and tornadoes both form in warm, damp air when winds blow into each other from opposite directions. Hurricanes develop over warm, tropical oceans, while tornadoes form over land and are more violent. In a hurricane, the winds swirl around in a spiral at up to 200 mph. In the middle is a calm "eye" 4 - 25 miles wide, surrounded by the worst wind and driving rain.

A tornado is a tall, funnel-shaped whirlwind of cloud up to 2,000 feet high. In the middle is an eye of descending air, surrounded by a strong upward current that sucks up or destroys everything in its path. Tornadoes can travel hundreds of miles before they die down.

Answer 3

Hurricanes are on a much larger scale – i.e. 311miles on average whilst tornadoes rarely exceed a width of 1 mile, however on most occasions tornado winds exceed hurricane force. To say that tornadoes only occur only on land is a generalisation as tornadoes can regularly form over water although they are usually very weak and are called waterspouts until they hit land

Answer 4

Beachman is 100% correct, and most of the other info is correct.

Tornadoes DO occur over water, and usually they are waterspouts, the "cousin" to the landspout. The difference between a landspout (which IS a tornado) and a "regular" tornado is essentially that a landspout isn't parented by mesocyclonic (storm) rotation, whereas a "regular" tornado is. Tornadoes over water can also be parented by mesocyclones, and they occasionally are, but it's a bit rare because the other atmospheric conditions (parameters) required for mesos to develop over water are rarely present.

There is no "eye" in a tornado, and no descending air, and they can extend upwards as an inherent core of the meso to 40,000 or 50,000 feet or higher. No one ever sees that, though, except by radar velocities (Doppler).

Answer 5

Size (hurricanes are hundreds of miles wide, tornadoes are meters wide), lifespan (hurricanes last days/weeks, tornadoes last seconds/minutes).

Answer 6

Hurricanes are in the water example: hurricane Katrina
Tornadosare on land and are wind storms (whatever u call them)