What is an average height for a tsunami and average diameter for a hurricane?

Question

What is the average height for a tsunami, e.g. 200 m, 249 m, etc. and the average diameter for a hurricane e.g. 500 miles, 900 miles, 401 miles? Thanks for the help....

Answer 1

Tsunamis can vary in height from a couple inches to over 20 ft high. Truth is, tsunamis really aren't exeptionally tall, but they are exceptionally wide.

Whereas a wave you come across at the beach may be 4 feet high and 6 feet wide, what makes tsunamis such killers is that they can be a 1/2 mile wide. If you look at the footage of the Indonesian tsunami of 2004, the wave isn't really that high, most tourist watch it from the third floor of their hotel, but it goes on forever like a dam had burst.

Hurricanes are entirely different. They can be huge, like Hurricane Floyd, or compact like Hurricane Charley or Hurricane Andrew.

With hurricanes, there are two things to consider: the wind field and the rain field. The rain field of a hurricane can be quite large with the initial rainbands arriving up to 24 hours before the eye makes landfall.

The wind field is split into 2 parts: Hurricane-force winds and tropical storm-force winds. The hurricane-force winds of 74 mph or higher is relatively narrow, 60 to 100 miles across. However, tropical storm-force winds of 39 to 74 mph can stretch outwards of up to 200 miles from the eye!

But wait, there more! If a hurricane is moving east to west, it tends to have a nice, circular, buzzsaw shape. But, if it moves south to north, it becomes egg-shaped and the rain field and wind fields stretch out further ahead than normal from the eye.

Also, I've noticed in previous hurricanes that go up to a Cat 5 but then weaken to a Cat 2 or 3 by the time they make landfall have a larger than normal wind field of tropical storm-force winds. Why this is I'm not entirely sure, but it may akin to how a figure skater coming out of a tight spin will extend his or her arms to maintain balance.

Answer 2

Tsunami Height

Answer 3

The height of a tsunami and average size of a hurricane is not always the same each time, it depends on the strength of first the earthquake and where it is located. As for the hurricane that depends on how much the storm is affected by different elements it encounters, but on average the size is about 200 miles across.

Answer 4

I'm 19 and I think I have been 5'3" since I was 14 or 15. a lot of my friends are around the same height, but I think the actual "average" height for an adult female is 5'5".