To start, tornadoes and hurricanes form in magnificent ways. It also takes a lot of wind speed for them to be classified as a tornado or hurricane. Hurricanes are extremely larger then a tornado. According to Spencer Adkins, if a tornado and hurricane combine, then the tornado will be kind of hidden because of the gigantic …show more content…
They go into a lot of detail too. To start out, tornadoes and hurricanes can get to extreme height and length. Did you know? A tornado can reach up to 2 miles long and that’s the size of Manhattan! Another reason to add, is that hurricanes are classified as hurricanes when they get to a certain speed of wind. It takes a hurricane 64mph to be classified as a hurricane. To end, hurricanes and tornados are set in groups. The tornados are set a group called efs and are classified by wind speed. Then the hurricanes are set in categories and like the tornados they are classified by categories. There are five categories for hurricanes and six efs for …show more content…
So that is where my house could of went. Except a tornado and hurricane have a lot in common so just looking at one you would not be able to tell which one or if it was or if it was dangerous. Without these facts it would be awful to be in a hurricane or tornado. However, hurricanes don't do much damage by their winds, but they can break flood walls and that is what does the damage. The reason one of the worst hurricanes to ever happen was hurricane Katrina, the reason that was so awful is because the flood walls broke according to "National Geographic Hurricanes