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They each present their own unique challenges, but if you're going to get hit a tornado is more dangerous. While death tolls in hurricanes are usually higher than in tornadoes, that is mostly because hurricanes cover a much larger area. By contrast, while tornadoes affect a much smaller area they tend to produce more severe damage and there is less warning time. When a hurricane is coming you usually have a couple day's warning, while with a tornado you have minutes, and occasionally no warning.
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Is an EF5 tornado worse than a category 5 hurricane?
It depends. Hurricane ratings are based on measured wind speed, so a hurricane can become a category 5 but stay at sea, causing no damage. Tornado ratings are based on damage severity, so if a tornado is rated EF5, at least one well-built structure must have been completely obliterated. However, a hurricane that makes landfall at category 5 intensity can be expected to be much worse than most EF5 tornadoes.
What is stronger a tornado or hurricane?
No. In most cases hurricane winds and tornado winds fall into the same range. However, in dealing with records, the highest winds recorded in a hurricane were about 190 mph. By contrast one tornado had its winds clocked at just over 300 mph. A hurricane with its high speed winds, thunder, lightning, and rain, covers a very much larger land area and air volume than a tornado. The sum total of energy and force in a hurricane is substantially greater than that of a tornado. That would make a hurricane stronger than a tornado.
What is the most dangerous intense and biggest hurricane ever?
The most intense hurricane ever recorded was Hurricane Patricia in 2015, with a minimum central pressure of 872 mb and maximum sustained winds of 215 mph. The largest hurricane in terms of diameter was Hurricane Ginny in 1963, which had tropical storm force winds extending 970 miles in diameter. In terms of damage and impact, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was one of the most dangerous hurricanes in U.S. history, causing widespread devastation along the Gulf Coast.
Which is deadlier a Tornado or a Hurricane?
Hurricanes can be potentially deadlier. In U.S. history the deadliest tornado had a death toll of 695 while the deadliest hurricane had a death toll of 6,000 to 12,000. In world history the deadliest tornado had a death toll of about 1,300. whil the deadliest hurricane had a death toll of 300,000 to 500,000.
Can Meteoroligists predict the path of a tornado or hurricane?
Hurricane paths are often given a cone of possibly paths that may take from their present location, but even with that there is a fairly large margin for error and it is impossible to know the exact path. Tornadoes are even harder to predict as they are much smaller and form much more quickly. It is possible to give an approximate path for the storm, but it is very difficult to predict even if there will be a tornado at all or, if there is one, whether it will last long enough to reach a particular place.
What is the most dangerous hurricane tornado tsunami or earthquake?
The one that you are nearest to. All are dangerous depending on their location.
What's worse hurricane or tornado?
A hurricane is generally worse. Since they are much larger than tornadoes they can cause more damage and kill more people. e.g. A number of hurricanes have killed over 1,000 people, but only one known tornado has done the same. However, somewhat paradoxically, a tornado is more dangerous. This is because tornadoes are more violent than hurricanes, are harder to predict, and form much more quickly.
What is one of natures most severe forms weather?
A tornado is one of the most severe forms of weather, in a localized area. A hurricane or typhoon is a bigger storm over a much wider area, but the tornado does more damage in one spot than a hurricane would.
Which one of this is not a cyclone Bora Hurricane Tornado or Typhoon?
A Bora is not a cyclone. Tornadoes more features in common with cyclones, but they are technically not cyclones either.
Is there a hurricane or tornado season in urugway?
There is probably a tornado season, as that part of the world does get tornadoes. Uruguay does not, however, have a hurricane season. Only one storm in recorded history has ever reached hurricane intensity in the South Atlantic, and it hit Brazil.
When the conditions for a tornado or hurricane are in favor of one the US refer this condition as a what?
When conditions are favorable for tornadoes a tornado watch is issued. However the criteria for a hurricane watch are different. A hurricane watch is issued of an existing storm is threatening an area and hurricane conditions are possible within 48 hours.
Which forms over an ocean is it a tornado or a hurricane or a blizzard?
Any one of these can form over the ocean, but only a hurricane does so exclusively.
Is an EF5 tornado worse than a category 5 hurricane?
It depends. Hurricane ratings are based on measured wind speed, so a hurricane can become a category 5 but stay at sea, causing no damage. Tornado ratings are based on damage severity, so if a tornado is rated EF5, at least one well-built structure must have been completely obliterated. However, a hurricane that makes landfall at category 5 intensity can be expected to be much worse than most EF5 tornadoes.
What tornado killed 1300 people in 2008?
No such tornado happened in 2008. The Daulatpur-Saturia tornado in Bangladesh did kill 1300 people, but it was in 1989. It is the only tornado to have killed more than 1000 people. One possible source of confusion is Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar in 2008, killing 130,000. This however was not a tornado but was basically a hurricane.
How can a hurricane be stronger than a tornado?
For one thing, the wind speed ranges of tornadoes and hurricanes overlap. Some hurricanes produce winds in excess of 150 mph, while not all tornadoes do. However, the maximum winds speeds of tornadoes are greater than those of hurricanes. Even though a tornado can produce faster winds than any hurricane, a hurricane is many times larger than a tornado, and so releases far more energy.
What is worse a hurricane or a thunderstorm?
Hurricanes are typically more destructive and dangerous than thunderstorms. Hurricanes have stronger winds, heavier rain, and can cause widespread flooding, while thunderstorms are generally more localized and shorter in duration.
Does every tornado have a name?
No. No tornado has a name. Every hurricane, gets a name , though, with the exception of one hurricane in 1991 which was simply called "the Perfect Storm."
