Compare And Contrast Hurricanes And Tornadoes

Hurricanes and tornadoes, two natural disasters that the U.S. sees every year with various amounts of destruction for each hurricane and tornado. While they may both be very different, they have their similarities.

As with anything, hurricanes and tornadoes have their differences. For instance, hurricanes aren’t dependant on thunderstorms to birth them whereas tornadoes rely on a thunderstorm in order to appear. Compared to a hurricane, tornadoes are significantly less wider than hurricanes with tornadoes being a mile wide at the most, while hurricanes can be as wide as a whole state. The winds of a hurricane are usually much slower than a tornado’s winds because hurricanes can’t spin as fast as tornadoes. A hurricane can flood the areas