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A tornado can have much higher winds than a hurricane and cause incredible destruction, but it does it over a much smaller area. A hurricane can cause coastal flooding that sweeps away whole communities. The Galveston Hurricane of 1900 killed between 8,000 and 12,000 people; it is still the deadliest natural disaster of any kind in US history. Hurricanes and tropical storms can also drop enormous amounts of rain, causing flooding many miles inland. Hurricanes cause widespread damage to the electrical distribution grid that can cause power outages over large areas for much longer periods of time. It is only the very strongest hurricanes that cause structural damage due to wind that can be compared to a tornado.
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∙ 12y agoHurricanes are more destructive overall mostly because they cover a larger area. However, on a localized scale the damage from a tornado is more severe.
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What causes more damage a tornado a hurricane or an earthquake?
A hurricane
Which tornado occurs more often?
Tornadoes occur more. While an active year might see a few dozen hurricane-strength tropical cyclones in a year, the United States alone documents an averages of more than 1,200 tornadoes annually.
Which causes more damage a hurricane or tornado?
Both hurricanes and tornadoes vary in the amount of damage they cause. Both can occur without causing any damage or can caused utter devastation. Overall, damage from tornadoes tends to be more severe,but hurricanes generally cause a greater quantity of damage because they cover much larger areas.
Do tornadoes cause less damage or a hurricane?
The damage from a tornado is usually more severe than that of a hurricane, but because a tornado covers a much smaller area, the total amount of damage from a tornado is usually less.
Can a hurricane cause more destruction than a tornado?
Yes. A hurricane affects a much larger area than a tornado and so will likely cause more damage overall. Tornado damage is generally more severe than hurricane damage, but it is limited to a small area. There have been far more hurricanes than tornadoes that have caused more than $1 billion in damage.
Would you rather be in a tornado or a hurricane?
A hurricane. While a hurricane can cause more damage and fatalities overall, this is spread out over a larger area. A tornado generally causes more severe damage, but in a smaller area.
Do tornadoes do more damage than hurricanes?
They often do as they cover a larger area and often cause flooding in addition to wind damage. The costliest tornado in U.S. history, the Joplin tornado of 2011, cost $2.8 billion. The costliest hurricane in U.S. history, Hurricane Katrina, cost $105 billion.
What side of a hurricane does more damage?
The right side of a hurricane does more damage.
What do damage of hurricanes and tornadoes have in common?
Both tornadoes and hurricanes can cause severe wind damage. These include uprooted and snapped trees, destroyed trailers, and roofs removed from houses. Aside from this damage is very different as the damage from tornadoes is often more severe on a localized than that of hurricanes. Most hurricane damage is the result of flooding rather than wind.
Do Hurricane water usually causes more destruction than high winds do?
High winds do cause more damage
Are hurricanes more destructive then tornadoes?
A hurricane can cause more damage than a tornado over because it is much bigger and so affects a larger area. However, the damage of a tornado is more concentrated and more severe on a localized scale.
Why is it that typically winds speeds in tornadoes are faster than wind speeds in hurricanes but hurricanes inflict more overall damage?
There are two reasons. First, while damage from a hurricane is usually less severe than that of a tornado, a hurricane covers a much larger area, so damage is more widespread. Second, much of the damage from hurricanes is not caused by wind, but by flooding.
