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A hurricane lasts longer, usually a few days, while a tornado usually lasts over 15 minutes.

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Which lasts longer a tornado or a hurricane?

Hurricanes last far longer. A hurricane typically lasts for several days, and some have lasted up to a month.By contrast a tornado usually only lasts a few minutes, and some just last a few seconds. No tornado has been known to last more than three and a half hours.A hurricane lasts longer than a tornado.


What lastest longer tornadoes or hurricanes on land?

Definitely hurricanes. A hurricane can maintain hurricane strength for hours after landfall and tropical storm status even longer. By comparison the average tornado lasts 10 minutes. It is very rare for a tornado to last more than an hour.


How can hurricane chris become the deadliest tornado?

It can't. A hurricane can't become a tornado.


Who do you think will win tornado or hurricane?

a tornado because of when it hit it it keeps going but a hurricane will stop at land


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.


What is the duration of Hurricane Ivan tornado outbreak?

The duration of Hurricane Ivan tornado outbreak is 48 hours.


What is the duration of Hurricane Georges tornado outbreak?

The duration of Hurricane Georges tornado outbreak is 144 hours.


Is a hurricane a water tornado?

No, a hurricane is not a tornado over water. A tornado and a hurricane are quite different. A hurricane is a large-scale self-sustaining storm pressure system, typically hundreds of miles wide. A tornado is a small-scale vortex dependent on a parent thunderstorm rarely over a mile wide. A tornado on water is called a waterspout.


Who would win in a fight a tornado or a hurricane?

There is no conflict between a hurricane and a tornado. In fact, hurricanes often produce tornadoes. However, if you were to somehow pitch the force of a hurricane against the force of a tornado, the hurricane would "win" without being significantly affected. Although a tornado can have faster winds than a hurricane, hurricanes are much larger and have several orders of magnitude more energy than a tornado.


What are the odds of getting killed in a hurricane then a tornado?

Zero. If you are killed in a hurricane, you are already dead, so you can't be killed by a tornado.


Are hurricane's warning longer than tornadoes?

Yes hurricanes take a long time to form and may exist for weeks. Tornadoes on the other hand form quickly and exist for only minuets. You therefor get a longer warning about a hurricane than you do about a tornado.


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.