Explain:the tornado has higher wind speeds than a typhoon, yet it is the typhoon that inflicts more damage.?

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Answer 1

A typhoon is much, much larger. A typhoon can be a hundred miles wide or larger, while a tornado is at most a few hundred feet wide. The typhoon winds act over a huge area, enabling them to do much more damage than a single tornado. This holds true, even ignoring the fact that a typhoon normally contains multiple tornadoes. Bear in mind also that it's impossible to do more damage than completely destroying something. The very center of the path of a typhoon's destruction near landfall is similar to the wreckage left by a single tornado.

Answer 2

Typhoon Wind Speeds

Answer 3

Typhoons are larger and last longer. Thats the bottom line.

Tornadoes only actually affect a small area for a short time. They usually occur in areas of the country that are mainly farmland.
The eastern coastline is extremely populated, so there are more houses to do damage to than the one solitary farmhouse that a tornado would normally effect.

Answer 4

Typhoon/Hurricane/Cyclone:
1. Cover a larger surface area
2.Tends to hang around for a couple of days(the ocean is the main energy source of the cyclone and when the cyclone hits land mass it gets cut of from the ocean and steadily starts to decompose)

Tornado:
1. Very small, very intense low pressure system.
2. Because it's so small and intense the tornado will sort itself out within a couple of minutes - returning air pressure to it's normal state.

Thus considering the time and surface area covered by both, I guess it's only logical to think a cyclone causes much more damage even though a tornado is more intense.

Answer 5

A tornado is high winds in a very tight circle. It's a lot of energy concentrated in an extremely small area. Typhoons are much larger. They can be dozens of miles wide, if not larger, thus have much more opportunity for causing damage.

Answer 6

a typhoon has a long period of high winds, a tornado is super short and moves long the ground quickly, at a width a the most of 1/2 mile across in most cases, a typhoon is miles and miles across, comparing the 2 is like a tornado to a hurricane...

Answer 7

Tornadoes are much smaller, even the largest dont get much larger than a mile wide (though much larger such as 2.5 miles wide have been seen). Hurricanes can have damage that looks similar to a tornado but a tornado has a much smaller damage area

Tropical cyclones are hundreds of miles wide

Look at it this way, a tornado is a stick of dynamite taking out everything in its path quickly where as a hurricane is a baseball bat that just batters things to they are destroyed

Answer 8

David and Whiskey's answers were good. Area of affect is an element. It you've seen the total distruction left by a tornado it might make the question moot.

Another element is Typhoons, being formed by low pressure cells at sea, have an added tidal impact.

Answer 9

typhoons are larger, slower, carry more water than tornadoes, which by contrast are smaller, move rather quickly, and carry considerably less water.