which storms are bigger,worst,more powerful and more dangerous tornadoes or hurricanes?

Answer 1

Hurricanes definatly. They are much broader in size and last longer. They are more likely to cause flooding - storm surge. Even though sometimes a hurricane may not have as strong of a wind speed as a tornado does, it can still do as much damage. Having a hurricane with lower wind speeds for several hours or even days can be more damaging than a major tornado that comes through over a few minutes. With hurricanes you also have the risk of tornadoes being formed along with water spouts. The only good thing about hurricanes is you know it's coming usally hours ahead of time, unlike tornadoes that can pop up in a spur of a moment

Answer 2

It depends what you're considering powerful. A hurricane, as has been mentioned, has far more overall energy involved, but a tornado's damage is more concentrated. A hurricane will flood houses and tear roofs off over hundreds, sometimes thousands of square miles; a tornado will leave nothing standing within a corridor of maybe a quarter of a mile in width.

Tornados are far less predictable; a hurricane's sheer size means it cannot simply pop out of the sky at you. A tornado can, sometimes with barely a few seconds' warning. Also, tornados have been known to destroy a house, then literally jump over the next building in line, and they can change direction on a dime. Hurricanes do neither.

However, a tornado will never have a storm surge. It will never destroy a major city, though it might flatten neighborhoods within that city. And when a tornado is sighted, only idiots and storm chasers fail to take shelter (and yes, those are two separate groups of people; I have only respect for those willing to risk their lives to gain information that could save others) A hurricane, on the other hand is quite capaple of decieving anyone. When the eye of a hurricane is over you, it seems as if the storm is gone...it's not uncommon for the eye to be completely calm, with clear skies and not a breath of wind. Many, believing the storm is over, leave their homes to check on friends and family, or to pick up extra supplies to hold them until power is restored, and find themselves trapped away from home when the other side of the hurricane hits.

And finally, huricanes are taken lightly far more than tornadoes are. While it's true that their power is far less concentrated, hurricanes can still kill. Even a weak tropical storm can be deadly, as some have found out too late. You probably never heard about the man who put too much stock in the people claiming that hurricanes aren't dangerous and went canoeing the day a tropical storm was supposed to hit. The canoe was later found...the thrill-seeker never was.

P.S. Just as in everything else, you have to consider the effect the media has on the public. Hurricanes are often seen as more dangerous for the simpe reason that tornadoes are more common, and thus get less publicity.

Answer 3

Both can be extremely dangerous; it would all depend on the severity of either. Like, just about any hurricane would be more severe if you were close to the coast than an EF0 tornado. Then again, if you have an EF5 tornado going on that's over a mile wide, you're in some trouble. BQ: Yes, I've been through both. I used to live twenty minutes from the coast in NC, and we got hit with a handful of hurricanes in the time I was there. We also had one tornado that ripped the roof off of a building, but otherwise did no damage. As far as that goes, the hurricanes were always way more terrifying, particularly the huge one for which my mother was like, "Oh, we don't REALLY need to evacuate..." No one got hurt, but power lines were snapped and just shooting sparks out everywhere...yeah. It sucked.

Answer 4

That depends on the size and strength of the two storms, even though the hurricane is larger and covers a wide area and the tornado covers a much smaller area, I would have to say depending on the strength, the hurricane is more dangerous. The reason behind my choice is the storm surge that the hurricane produces on the right quadrant of the storm.

Answer 5

Hurricanes are giant cyclones of rotating thunderstorms, their wind speed is less than that of a Tornado but cover a much larger area 200-1200 miles!
Tornadoes on the other hand have faster wind speeds but are much more concentrated, to an area of 100 meters through 2 miles. As far as destruction, Hurricanes are more costly due to their huge area of high wind speeds and rain fall. However a tornado's damage is most of the time worse than hurricanes where the tornadoes hit, but remember the area is much smaller than a hurricane. If you have a category1 hurricane and a F0 tornado, the damage would be more of less the same magnitude, but the hurricane would cover a larger area. If you have an F5 tornado and any category hurricane, they magnitude of damage of the tornado would be much much worse than any hurricane due to wind speeds reaching over 300MPH.

To wrap it up, a hurricanes damage is widespread and tends to be less severe than a tornadoes, but a tornadoes damage is concentrated, and tends to have higher wind speeds and more severe damage to the places it affects.

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Answer 6

Tornadoes have much higher wind speeds - up to 300 miles per hour. They can be incredibly destructive, but only over a limited area. A very large tornado might be half a mile across. A hurricane rarely has speeds much above 100 miles per hour. But they can blow for days, and be a hundred or miles across. A hurricane has much more overall energy and can be far more destructive.

Answer 7

Consider this: hurricanes typically spawn multiple tornadoes within the hurricane itself. I live in MS in the Katrina zone, and with every hurricane we've had in my lifetime, we sit and listen to the radio or battery operated tv and hear which streets and neighborhoods have had tornadoes during the storm.

Answer 8

It all depends where you are. Remember tornadoes are more often to ocurr in land and hurricanes in water, and if they come into ground, it depends in which phase it is. I think that a tornado F5 is worst than a hurricane tipe 5, but it all depends of the strengths both of them have and location. Tornadoes tend to devastate what is in their path and hurricanes not always.

Answer 9

Tornadoes are stronger wind wise but hurricanes
cause more damage. I grew up in tornado alley
and I now live in Mississippi. Hurricane Katrina
is labeled as the worst natural disaster to hit the
United States. They are correct.

Answer 10

Hurricanes are bigger, (they can be 1000s of miles in diameter) more powerful, (as much as a Hiroshima bomb every second) but not necessarily more dangerous, as tornadoes have higher winds and are less predictable. Hurricanes can be fled from, and don't always do as much wind damage, but will still drown you if you're not careful.