If anyone has experienced either it would be good to hear about it!
2007-04-26 19:49:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
Since I have lived in "tornado alley" and seen the destruction of my own home in Pearlington, MS, after Katrina, I would have to say that a hurricane is much worse! I lost EVERYTHING in Katrina, and I have had to completely start over. There was nothing left of my home and belongings in Katrina because of the surge of salt water that destroyed everything in her path. Though New Orleans received the most media attention, it was Hancock County, MS, that received the DIRECT hit! I do not, by any means, want to belittle the destruction in New Orleans, but their damage was due to a faulty levee system that has been faulty for YEARS!! They received the most media coverage because New Orleans is a popular tourist attraction.
Uh, and, by the way, if you have a hurricane, it's not going to just skip YOUR house next door; it's going to destroy an entire region! Look at what Katrina did from Louisiana to Alabama in 2005. People are STILL trying to rebuild!
2007-04-29 14:11:19 · answer #1 · answered by futureteacher0613 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll go against the crowd here and go with the Hurricane.
While the damage from a 300mph tornado would be incredible, it would be localized.
On the other hand, at 150mph winds you are talking about a Category 4 Hurricane, only 5mph shy of a Category 5 hurricane. Hurricane Katrina was only a Category 3 and it was 200 miles wide.
I'll take the tornado.
2007-04-28 05:14:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Has there every been a tornado with 300mph winds?
i will answer that question myself though rare it has happened.
What was the strongest tornado? What is the highest wind speed in a tornado? Nobody knows. Tornado wind speeds have only been directly recorded in the weaker ones, because strong and violent tornadoes destroy weather instruments. Mobile Doppler radars such as the OU Doppler on Wheels have remotely sensed tornado wind speeds above ground level as high as about 302 mph (on 3 May 1999 near Bridge Creek OK) -- the highest winds ever found near earth's surface by any means. [That tornado caused F5 damage.] But ground-level wind speeds in the most violent tornadoes have never been directly measured.
So because of this a 300mph tornado would be alot scarier than a hurricane.
2007-04-27 03:50:39 · answer #3 · answered by vucker4 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A 300 mph tornado tearing down my street would be very scary. But what I think would be much more frightening and much more life threatening would be the sight of hundreds of storm chasers, driving at a very high rate of speed in order to stay ahead of the game by keeping up with the tornado. What makes it even scarier would be seeing some of these speeding storm chasers ahead of you running a stop sign because the chaser was trying to keep one eye focus on the road while using the other eye trying to keep the tornado on the center of their tiny cell phone monitor while also verbally coordinating their position over the phone. That is when I would rather stay in the basement until the thundering herd of chasers are well gone with the wind storm. As for the hurricane, if I were like most people and heeded the warning, I should not find myself in that scary situation.
2007-04-26 23:09:58 · answer #4 · answered by UALog 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Tornado most definitely.
I have spoken to many people who have experienced a 150MPH plus typhoon, and how in the darkness they knelt down, and prayed for their lives.
I have experienced only a 120MPH typhoon, and in UK have just been outside the band of a tornado. In one instance a car in a supermarket car-park was badly damaged. It was parked in the same spot I had been just twenty minutes before, lucky or what? I saw the tornado pass by safely from home.
2007-04-27 15:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by Tropic-of-Cancer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A tornado. Though they are very localised the damage is immense. Damage caused by a hurricane is widespread but more buildings are left standing than when a tornado has passed through. (Been in a hurricane but, thankfully, never a tornado).
2007-04-26 19:59:23 · answer #6 · answered by JJ 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a 300 mph tornado it will cause more destruction darlin xx
2007-04-26 22:59:55 · answer #7 · answered by dream theatre 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are dumb enough to be around in either situation, you probably aren't smart enough to be scared. Given the speed of the storms, the tornado should pose a greater threat.
2007-04-26 20:01:24 · answer #8 · answered by cattbarf 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
The former.
2007-04-27 14:50:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Would you rather be attacked by a lion or a tiger?
2007-04-27 01:58:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋