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Tornadoes have a vortex. Hurricanes are just wind

Tornadoes Vs Hurricanes

Hurricanes are really big, but have slower winds (<200 Miles per hour)

Tornadoes are small, but have high speed winds (200-350 MPH).

A hurricane can be hundreds of miles across.

A tornado is usually less than 1 mile across.

Hurricanes start and grow over an ocean, but when they get to land they die.

Tornadoes start over land, and weaken if they get over water. A tornado over water is called a WATERSPOUT.

Hurricanes cause tornadoes, but tornadoes do not cause hurricanes.

Both are circular storm masses.

BOTH tornadoes and Hurricanes have a vortex. The vortex of a hurricane is called the "eye". Just look at satellite photos of hurricanes.

The "eye" of a hurricane is is large, 50-100 MILES across.

The "eye" of a tornadoe is small, may less than 100 FEET across.

Hurricanes are formed from large bodies of waters.

Tornadoes are formed from water to varies places on land.

Hurricanes are very descructive and can last for weeks.

Tornadoes usually last for no less than a day.

Hurricanes can completely demolish anything in it's site.

Tornadoes can also completely domolish anything in it's site.

Tornadoes are funnel clouds.

Hurricanes are caused by Tropical cyclones form and grow over warm ocean water, drawing their energy from latent heat. Latent heat is the energy released when water vapor in rising hot, humid air condenses into clouds and rain. As warmed air rises, more air flows into the area where the air is rising, creating wind. The Earth’s rotation causes the wind to follow a curved path over the ocean (the Coriolis effect), which helps give tropical cyclones their circular appearance.

Hurricanes and tropical cyclones form, maintain their strength, and grow only when they are over ocean water that is approximately 27°C (80°F). Such warmth causes large amounts of water to evaporate, making the air very humid. This warm water requirement accounts for the existence of tropical cyclone seasons, which occur generally during a hemisphere’s summer and autumn. Because water is slow to warm up and cool down, oceans do not become warm enough for tropical cyclones to occur in the spring.

Oceans can become warm enough in the summer for hurricanes to develop, and the oceans also retain summer heat through the fall. As a result, the hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin, which comprises the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, runs from June 1 through November 30. At least 25 out-of-season storms, however, have occurred from 1887 through 2003, and 9 of these strengthened into hurricanes for at least a few hours.

Tornado, violently rotating column of air extending from within a thundercloud (see Cloud) down to ground level. The strongest tornadoes may sweep houses from their foundations, destroy brick buildings, toss cars and school buses through the air, and even lift railroad cars from their tracks. Tornadoes vary in diameter from tens of meters to nearly 2 km (1 mi), with an average diameter of about 50 m (160 ft). Most tornadoes in the northern hemisphere create winds that blow counterclockwise around a center of extremely low atmospheric pressure. In the southern hemisphere the winds generally blow clockwise. Peak wind speeds can range from near 120 km/h (75 mph) to almost 500 km/h (300 mph). The forward motion of a tornado can range from a near standstill to almost 110 km/h (70 mph).

hurricanes are by sea, tornados by land