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A hurricane covers hundreds or thousands of square miles. A tornado will cover no more than a couple of miles, and normally was less than that. It can touch down and be only a few yards wide.
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Do the wind of a tornado tend to concentrate in s smaller or larger area than the wind of a hurricane?
The wind of a tornado are in a much smaller area, usually under a mile wide. A hurricane is hundreds of miles wide.
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.
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.
When a hurricane is differ from a tornado is the winds of hurricane concentrated in a smaller area?
No. The winds of a tornado are concentrated in a much smaller area. Typically the winds of a hurricane affect an area a few hundred miles across. By contrast the winds of a tornado usually affect an area less than a quarter of a mile wide and rarely more than a mile.
What can be found in the center of a tornado?
In many cases the center of a tornado will be a calm area similar to the eye of a hurricane, albeit much smaller.
What is bigger a tornado or a hurricane or a cyclone?
A hurricane is a kind of cyclone, however they are somewhat smaller than a few other varieties of cyclone. By comparison, tornadoes are tiny.
How can hurricane chris become the deadliest tornado?
It can't. A hurricane can't become a tornado.
Which covers more hurricane or a tornado?
a hurricane
The pressure ina hurricane and in a tornado?
Both a hurricane and a tornado have centers of intense low pressure.
Is hurricane and tornado in a bottle the same thing?
If you mean a hurricane in a bottle then yes, a hurricane in a bottle and a tornado in a bottle are the same thing. In shape, however, the vortex bears more resemblance to a tornado than a hurricane.
Is a tornado worse than a hurricane?
The winds in a tornado funnel are perhaps faster (and therefore more destructive) than a hurricane, but the diameter of a tornado is very very small compared with a hurricane.
Can a hurricane be shaped as a tornado?
No, a hurricane is a huge storm hundreds of miles wide. A tornado is tiny by comparison.
