How are hurricanes and thunderstorms similar?

Answer 1

Hurricanes and thunderstorms are both convective storms fueled by warm, moist air. Hurricanes, in fact, are largely made of thunderstorms. Both produce rain and wind. All hurricanes have wind strong enough to cause damage, but only some thunderstorms do. Both can cause flooding and, occasionally, tornadoes.

Both get their energy when moist air rises and cools, causing the moisture in it to condense and release energy stored as latent heat.

Answer 2

Hurricanes and ice storms are dangerous weather events that involve precipitation, but other than that they have little in common. A hurricane is a powerful cyclonic storm that develops over tropical ocean water. Dangers from hurricanes com in the form of destructive winds, flooding from torrential rain, large waves, and the storm surge.

An ice storm is an event in which a large amount of freezing rain falls. Freezing rain is a phenomenon in which supercooled water, or water that remains liquid below the normal freezing point, falls from the sky. This rain freezes on impact with the surface, creating a coating of ice on almost every surface. During an ice storm, enough ice forms on surfaces that tree limbs and power lines start to break under the weight.

Answer 3

How hurricanes and tornadoes are similar:

• Both are violent weather events.
• Both have strong winds.
• Both have intense low pressure.
• Except for a small percentage of tornadoes, both rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.

However they are very different events.

A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least mph.

• Hurricanes are huge, 60 miles wide at the smallest, over 1300 at the largest. The average diameter is 300 miles.
• Hurricanes last for days.
• Hurricanes form over warm ocean water.
• A hurricane is an independent weather system in itself.
• Most hurricane damage is from flooding.
• Hurricane winds can reach about 200 mph.

Tornadoes:

• Tornadoes are small in weather terms. Some are under 30 feet wide, the largest ever recorded had a diameter of 2.5 miles. The average diameter is about 150 feet.
• Tornadoes typically last a few minutes. Some last just a few seconds. Tornadoes lasting over an hour are very rare.
• Tornadoes usually form over land.
• A tornado depends on a parent thunderstorm called a supercell to form and sustain itself.
• Tornado damage mainly results from wind and flying debris.
• Tornadoes are usually made visible by a condensation funnel, which is not present in hurricanes.
• Tornado winds can exceed 300 mph.

Answer 4

Tornadoes and hurricanes are similar in that both:

• Are very strong storms
• Produce very strong, damaging winds
• Have low pressure centers
• Rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.

However, there are many differences as well.

• A hurricane is its own storm system while a tornado depends on a larger parent storm.
• Hurricanes are typically hundreds of miles across while tornadoes rarely exceed a mile in diameter.
• Hurricanes last for days or even weeks while tornadoes rarely last even and hour. Some last only a few seconds.
• Hurricanes form only over warm ocean water while tornadoes mostly form over land.
• Tornadoes cause damage through wind and flying debris while most hurricane damage results from flooding.
• Tornadoes are often made visible by a condensation funnel, a feature absent in hurricanes.

Answer 5

Both hurricanes and thunderstorms are convective storms that feed on warm moist air and often reach up to the tropopause. Both can produce heavy rain and damaging wind.

Answer 6

the tornado is smilar to hurricans because they so same type f natural disaster. the different is that tornado form by wind and hurricans form by water