What is this differece between hurricanes and tornados?

Question

What is this differece between hurricanes and tornados?

Answer 1

Firstly, tornadoes are formed from an instability in the atmosphere, whereas hurricanes are formed when a wet mass of air over the sea evaporates. Because of this, tornadoes usually form during thunderstorms. However, for hurricanes, thunderstorms are its effects, and not a cause of its formation.

The effects also differ, though there are obvious similarities such as the destruction of buildings. Most importantly, hurricanes can cause tsunamis and flooding, while tornadoes do not. Instead, they contaminate the water. Besides, tornadoes can cause epidemic, while this is not an effect of a hurricane.

Answer 2

good question KM. These two phenomena are vastly different. About the only commonality is their cyclonic flow and their destructive nature. The tornado forms in very unstable air with warm moist air flowing from the south near the surface and with dry, cold, and strong westerly flow at higher altitudes. They form out of existing cumulonimbus clouds without very much warning time and last only less than an hour.

Hurricanes form in the tropics generally between 10 and 15 degrees north latitude. They form when monsoonal winds (southwesterly winds) develop south of the trade winds (easterlies). This provides the trigger for cyclonic circulation. The surface temperature must be > or equal to 28C and there must be very little shear (large changes in wind direction or speed with altitude) which could remove any latent heat that has been generated by condensation of water vapor and which contributes to a developing low pressure center. The developing storm grows out of an area of disorganized cumulus clouds called a convective cloud cluster, grows into a tropical depression at which time it is given a number, tracked and monitored by both satellite and aircraft. From a depression it will deepen (Lower pressure) into a tropical storm (when it is given a name) and finally a hurricane.

Answer 3

Hurricanes are storms - tornados are twisters

Answer 4

These terms can be confusing because of how they are used. Technically, a cyclone (lower case) is ANY rotating low pressure system (rotating counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere). Hurricanes, Typhoons and Cyclones (note upper case) are the same thing but are termed by where they exist. The tropical cyclone is called a hurricane (if sustained winds are at least 65 knots) over the Atlantic basin and the eastern Pacific Ocean, while over the western Pacific it is called a Typhoon. The same type of system is called a Cyclone over the Indian Ocean area (one recently struck Bangladesh)

A tornado is another type of cyclone that is born in thunderstorms. In some cases, tropical cyclones can produce many tornadoes if conditions are right.

Hope it Helps!!

Answer 5

Hurricanes are tropical and very large and can cover hundreds of miles across while a tornadoe occurs over land are only a few feet across...