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The mechanics behind hurricanes and tornadoes are somewhat different, though the ultimate source of energy is them same. A hurricane starts out as a cluster of thunderstorms in the warm, moist air over tropical ocean water. As the air rises, it cools and the moisture condenses, releasing heat into the surrounding air, causing it to rise. The rising air creates low pressure that draws in more air, which supplies more energy to power the storms, causing the pressure to drop more. The cluster of storms gets stronger as this cycle continues. As the wind flowing into the system strengthens, it is influenced by earths rotation in what is called the Coriolis Effect, and begins to spiral into the storm system, which in turn starts to rotate. The rotation causes the thunderstorms to become more organized, allowing the system to gain energy more efficiently. If the cycle continues, the system will strengthen and organize into a hurricane.
Tornadoes are a product of thunderstorms, which are still fueled by warm moist air. However, in a tornadic storm the source of rotation is different. Individual storm cells are too small to be influenced by the Coriolis effect. In stead, the thunderstorm is impacted by wind shear, or differences in wind speed and direction with height. The wind shear sets the storm rotating, turning it into a supercell, with a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone. Eventually, a downdraft can wrap around the mesocyclone, causing it to tighten and intensify to produce a tornado. In another mechanism, broad, ground-level rotation can get caught in the updraft of a developing thunderstorm, causing it to tighten and intensify into a kind of tornado called a landspout, Such tornadoes are generally weaker than their supercell-spawned cousins.
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Where does all the rain come from in a hurricane?
Hurricanes are driven by moisture that evaporates off warm ocean water. This moisture the condenses within the storm, releasing energy that drives the hurricane and then falling to earth as rain.
What year did hurricane Tomas come?
Hurricane Tomas was in late 2010.
What is a hurricane's source of energy?
Heat of water.
Why does a hurricane begin to lose energy when it reaches land?
Hurricanes get their energy from warm ocean water. When a hurricane moves over land it is cut off from its power source.
How does a hurricane get its energy from warm water?
Moisture evaporates from the water. The resulting warm moist air carries enormous amounts of energy. When this air is pulled into a developing hurricane it rises and as a result cools and condenses, releasing that energy.Energy of a warm sea is transferred to a hurricane by water evaporating into a hurricane.
Is hurricane electrical energy?
No. A hurricane delivers kinetic energy.
Where does the energy that fuels hurricanes come from?
The energy that fuels a hurricane comes from latent heat stored in water vapor that evaporates from warm ocean water.
Which these is an example of kinetic energy?
A hurricane
How March can hurricane expend energy?
March isn't during hurricane season (June 1st - November 30) so there isn't any hurricane energy to be expended.
What type of storm has the greatest energy hurricane or tornado?
Overall a hurricane has much more energy. Mostly because a hurricane is hundreds of times larger than a tornado.
Where does all the rain come from in a hurricane?
Hurricanes are driven by moisture that evaporates off warm ocean water. This moisture the condenses within the storm, releasing energy that drives the hurricane and then falling to earth as rain.
What year did hurricane Tomas come?
Hurricane Tomas was in late 2010.
Can you predict that a hurricane will come?
no
What year did both Hurricane Andrew and hurricane Katrina come to the United States?
Hurricane Andrew was in 1992. Hurricane Katrina was in 2005.
What type of storm has more energy?
a hurricane
What is a hurricane's source of energy?
Heat of water.
Was it a month till hurricane rita come after hurricane Katrina?
Hurricane Rita formed a little less than a month after Hurricane Katrina.
