How long do a hurricane and tornado usually last?

Question

doing a school project. help?

Answer 1

The answer to your question depends on it's context.  Do you mean what is the life span of these storms or how long do they last at a particular location?

A hurricane can last for weeks over it's lifetime, but usually only takes about 12 hours to pass over a fixed location.

A tornado can last several hours in it's lifetime, but only take a few minutes to pass over a fixed location.

Also hurricanes will do a lot more wide spread damage and cost much more money to recover from than a tornado, but tornadoes to worse damage in small areas than do hurricanes.

Good luck on your project!

Answer 2

hurricane = days to weeks

tornado = minutes

Answer 3

yeah i agree with matt

ive been through a lot of hurricanes and they last days

and tornados will just last minutes :)