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Depends on what you mean by touch the ground. A hurricane is not like a tornado, which develops in the clouds and then extends downward. A hurricane is a large-scale weather system that has components operating at all levels of the troposphere, including at the surface. Hurricanes form over warm ocean water, and many stay at sea, but some do strike land. By definition, a hurricane must produce sustained surface-level winds of at lest 74 mph.

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