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Yes. They are quite different:
- A typical hurricane is several hundred miles wide while a typical tornado is no more than a few hundred yards wide.
- Hurricanes last for days if not weeks while tornadoes rarely last more than an hour; usually less than ten minutes.
- A hurricane is its own self-sustaining storm system while a tornado is dependent on the thunderstorm that spawns it.
- Hurricanes can only form over warm ocean water while tornadoes can form almost anywhere.
- Hurricanes produce a wide variety of hazards including wind, flooding, storm surge, and large waves. Tornadoes only present the dangers of wind and directly wind-related hazards.
- Most tornadoes will produce a visible funnel-shaped cloud that extends toward the ground, a feature not found in hurricanes.
- Tornadoes, on average, have faster winds than hurricanes.
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Who names tornadoes?
They don't. Tornadoes are too short-lived and to numerous to name them. People name hurricanes to avoid confusion when more than one is happening at the same time, and to distinguish between hurricanes that impact the same areas.
What is it called when there is a group of hurricanes?
A group, or 2 or more, hurricanes has no official name. It just pertains to the chaos theory and the fujiwara effect. But when hurricanes do get close enough to each other, they will circle each other until an outside force pulls them apart. This is called the Fujiwara effect.
Can a tornado kill?
The greatest portion of tornado deaths results from flying debris. Everyday objects and building materials can be turned into deadly projectiles by a strong tornado. Others may die as buildings collapse on them. In weak tornadoes, which are not often deadly, may cause deaths through toppling trees and other heavy objects or overturning trailers. In some cases people may be picked up and thrown by the winds of a tornado. Occasionally there are unusual cases, as tornadoes have been known to do strange things. One man was found impaled on the lid of a washing machine after a tornado destroyed his home.
Is a sand storm caused by erosion?
No, a sandstorm is caused by to fronts of wind going in different directions hitting each other creating small tornadoes if there is enough heat the small tornadoes will start getting larger and spinning faster to make a sand storm.
Can there be two tornadoes beside each other?
Yes. Most often this occurs when one large and powerful tornado produces a smaller, weaker, satellite tornado that orbits it. Tornadoes that come too close to each other may merge.
Are hurricanes and tornadoes related to each other?
Not really. While it is not uncommon for a hurricane to produce tornadoes, most tornadoes are the product of mid-latitude storm systems that have nothing to do with hurricanes.
Do hurricanes or tornadoes cause more damage in the US each year?
hurricanes cause more damage they can also cause earthquakes and tsunamis
How are tornadoes related to thunderstorms and hurricanes?
They are all type of storm and can all produce strong winds. Hurricanes and tornadoes have more in common with each other, though, than they do with ordinary thunderstorms. For example, both have eyes, or eyelike structure (in a tornado it is called a weak echo region.) They also both rotate, which is something most thunderstorms don't do. All tornadoes are produced by thunderstorms, some of these storms are produced by hurricanes.
How are tornadoes different from each other?
Tornadoes differ in intensity, size, duration, speed of movement and the path that they take. All of these factors influence the magnitude of a tornado's impact.
Do they name tornado after male name and Hurricane after female name?
Do you mean the National Weather Service giving tornadoes male names and hurricanes female names? If so, the answer is no. Hurricanes are named from lists that are compiled of a name starting with each letter of the alphabet and alternating in gender. Tornadoes do not get names at all.
What are the characteristitics of each different categores of each hurricanes?
i believe each category of hurricane is categorized by windspeed.
Is it true that forces are described by their strength and their speed?
Well usually when you think about it, yes. For measuring Earth forces like Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Earthquakes, they all basically are measured by how strong they are and their speed. Each different type of force may have different terminology, but the basics are the same.
Who names tornadoes?
They don't. Tornadoes are too short-lived and to numerous to name them. People name hurricanes to avoid confusion when more than one is happening at the same time, and to distinguish between hurricanes that impact the same areas.
What happens when 2 tornadoes run into each other?
When two tornadoes meet, they merge into one tornado.
What is it called when there is a group of hurricanes?
A group, or 2 or more, hurricanes has no official name. It just pertains to the chaos theory and the fujiwara effect. But when hurricanes do get close enough to each other, they will circle each other until an outside force pulls them apart. This is called the Fujiwara effect.
Can a tornado kill?
The greatest portion of tornado deaths results from flying debris. Everyday objects and building materials can be turned into deadly projectiles by a strong tornado. Others may die as buildings collapse on them. In weak tornadoes, which are not often deadly, may cause deaths through toppling trees and other heavy objects or overturning trailers. In some cases people may be picked up and thrown by the winds of a tornado. Occasionally there are unusual cases, as tornadoes have been known to do strange things. One man was found impaled on the lid of a washing machine after a tornado destroyed his home.
How does tornadoes evolve?
The warm and the cold air collide violently with each other
