what is the most violent storm : a tornado or a hurricane and why ?

Question

i personally think a tornado is because of what they can do for such a small storm , what do you think !

Answer 1

When you say storm, you can't say tornado because a tornado isn't a storm. A tornado is an appendage of a usually supercellular storm. So, I will answer your question like it was asking:

what is the most violent storm : a supercell with tornado or a hurricane and why ?

The answer to that is a supercellular thunderstorm. This is because a supercellular thunderstorm will have 5 main threats. These are deadly cloud to ground lightning, very heavy rainfall which can create flash flooding, wind gusts to 100 M.P.H. on occasion, hail around golf ball size and up to softball size, and tornadoes that can flatten entire towns.

A hurricane has heavy rain extended over long periods of time and winds of 200 M.P.H. at maximum.

So, you can see how a supercellular thunderstorm has the most violent weather, although it usually lasts no longer than an hour while hurricanes can last much longer over a given location.

Answer 2

The most violent storms are TORNADOES. Winds in a tornado can top out at 285 MPH sustained and their small but circuler shape to a whopping 2 miles wide maximum make it the most deadly force on Earth.

However, Hurricanes are the most destructive. Katrina proved this with the one factor that plays a significant role in deaths and injury. Flooding kills more than the storms' winds, or any other attribute in any other storm.

Brian R Cross

Answer 3

Over a small scale a tornado is more violent... winds are typically very strong, 100-200 mph, but only extend a short distance from the center of the tornado, 100 yards to 1/4 mile.

Over a large scale a hurricane is the more violent storm... winds are 75-150 mph and extend 150-200 miles from the eye of the storm.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to do your best to avoid both!

Answer 4

The strongest winds measured in tornadoes are much greater than the strongest winds measured in hurricanes, so in that sense tornadoes are more violent. However, hurricanes are much more dangerous because they cover much larger areas, and can cause flooding in addition to wind damage.

It's a bit tricky trying to answer why tornadoes are more violent, I would say that it's because the wind speed for both depends on the difference in the amount of latent heat energy contained in the moist air that fuels the storm from the other air in the system, and for a hurricane there is not as great a difference in that energy between regions outside the storm and the region of the eye wall, but in a tornado there is a tremendous difference in energy content between the moist air at the surface and the dry air aloft.

Answer 5

Hurricanes are. I've been within less than a 1/4 mile of an F5 tornado and have gone through several hurricanes, and you couldn't convince me a tornado is worse. Even though they don't produce as high of winds as some tornadoes do, they produce more damage. Hurricanes are much broader in size(they can cover a whole state+), they can last for several hours and even days. They produce tornadoes, water spouts, storm surge, and major flooding. I've seen many houses here in Florida flattened by hurricanes. I've seen houses on the beaches destroyed by +/- 25 ft. storm surges.

Answer 6

Do you believe your community weatherman? frequently no longer (till you reside in Seattle or Honolulu). could you believe archives from a 'analyze challenge' the two? there has been tornadoes recorded this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days already, in spite of the certainty that this is not any longer yet twister season, the place tornadoes are envisioned to strike, with the top months of April with the aid of June. no longer March. subsequently, it particularly is plenty too early to invest something. Jan. 18 - Fresno, California Jan. 20 - Waksom, Texas Jan. 20 - Canton, Texas Jan. 20 - Hazlehurst, Mississippi Jan. 21 - Ventura, California Jan. 21 - Raiford, Florida Jan. 21 - Jasper, Tennessee Jan. 21 - Huntsville, Alabama i'm unlikely to record all of them. Wait till September and the record would be around a million,500 activities long.

Answer 7

Violent? How are you measuring the violence of the two storms?

I guess if we held a cage match between tornado and hurricane, hurricane would win. So I go with hurricane.

Answer 8

Hurricane, it is like a giant tornado with tornados inside of it. I live on the gulf coast and they are very destructive. Hurricanes also last for hours and cover a much larger area.

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Answer 9

Hurricanes cause widespread destruction over a wide area for hours or days. They can also spawn tornados. The flooding from a hurricane causes more death than anything else.
Yes, a tornado can flatten a town but it is over fairly quickly. One tornado doesn't cause destruction for hours.
If there is a super outbreak of tornados I can see them possibly causing more destruction than a hurricane but one on one the hurricane is much worse.

Answer 10

Hurricanes are more destructive because, along with the wind which destroys things, there is also massive flooding. Flooding keeps doing damage long after the winds have passed.