Hurricanes and tornadoes?????

Question

ok i looked up what causes hurricanes and it really confuses me! can someone please explain to me what causes them in a simple way not so complexed and confusing like the websites

also if u could explain tornadoes that would help

i forgot all this that i learned so plz help!

Answer 1

Hurricanes are severe tropical storms that form in the southern Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Hurricanes gather heat and energy through contact with warm ocean waters. Evaporation from the seawater increases their power.

Hurricanes rotate in a counter-clockwise direction around an "eye." Hurricanes have winds at least 74 miles per hour.

Tornadoes are rotating, funnel-shaped clouds that come from powerful thunderstorms. They cause damage when they touch down on the ground. When they come onto land, the heavy rain, strong winds and heavy waves can damage buildings, trees and cars. The heavy waves are called a storm surge. Storm surges are very dangerous and a major reason why you MUST stay away from the ocean during a hurricane warning or hurricane.

Answer 2

There's really no simple way to explain complex whether systems like hurricanes and tornadoes.  However, I will try to expand a bit on the other person's answer.

A tornado forms when you get a rotating column of air in a thunderstorm caused by wind shear (winds at different levels of the storm moving at different speeds /or directions).  When that column interacts with the updraft (an area of winds blowing up into the storm) it (the rotating column) becomes vertical.  When the column becomes vertical, a tornado often forms.

A Hurricane is formed when a large complex of thunderstorms forms around an area of low pressure.  As the storms form and feed off of the warm tropical waters, they begin to rotate around the area of low pressure.

A slight correction.  the storm surge is caused by the area of low pressure at the center of the hurricane, not waves.  As the atmosphereic pressure lowers, it draws the surface of the ocean up a bit.  The lower the pressure (in millibars or inches of mercury), the higher the water rises up.