What is more powerful? A catagory 5 hurricane or an F-5 tornado?
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An F-5 tornado is capable of producing MUCH stronger winds than a CAT 5 Hurricane.  However, a tornado will damage on a much smaller scale than a hurricane.  \n\nWhile an F-5 tornado my take out multiple houses, a Cat V hurricane will take out an entire metropolis.
599792
Tornado Alley might have the MOST frequency of tornadoes, but the worst type of tornadoes , I believe,are "waterspouts": tornadoes that form on oceans (yikes! where to hide from that one?)  They occur fairly around warm waters (including Florida).\n\nCheck these chilling pictures out\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Trombe.jpg\nhttp://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nws/images/big/wea00312.jpg
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there are 2 kinds Microburst and Macrobusts. They are both the same only the micro is weaker, the conditions for a microburst are the same for a tornado. Only air pressure comes down and hits the ground                                                                   and air is sort of sucked into the sky.......This happened in my hometown about a year ago, the roof on my school was lifted up about 1 foot and slammed back onto the school (just to give you a idea of the power of a MACroburst)
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What kind of storm? A tornado of sufficient force can certainly blow you away - heck, powerful tornados can even pick up entire trucks. A hurricane might not quite pick you up and deposit you somewhere, but its strong winds can knock you off your feet, especially in the midst of all that rain and water from the storm surge.
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Hurricane - Large tropical weather system with intense low pressure at the center, resulting in strong winds.  Can also have incredible amounts of rain.  Can be hundreds of miles wide.  Forms over warm water, dies over land.  Forms in the Atlantic Ocean basin.\n\nTyphoon - Same as a hurricane, except in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.\n\nTornado - A formation within a single severe thunderstorm.  Rapidly rotating column of air with even more intense low pressure at the center.  Only a mile or so wide at the most severe, usually much narrower.  Probably occurs almost exclusively over land and small bodies of water (said because no evidence is left by a tornado over water, and there is rarely anyone in the middle of a large body of water close enough to a storm to see a tornado).
608754
I love to watch them on tv. I love a thunderstorm near my house. Never been in a tornado or hurricane but they look really scary on tv. I think I would be very scared if I had to go thru a tornado of hurricane. We had a tropical storm one time with winds up to 70 mph. It was awful and lasted all night. I was so worried about the trees crashing on my house. They didn't but the ones in the far back fell. The house shook.
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I don't live in U.S.A., but I can't tell you for sure that the tornados aren't named as hurricanes or typhoons. A tornado has a scale of intensity. The Fujita Scale. A tornado is classified as Category F0 to F5. A tornado F0 is a tornado that produces light damage. Some damage to chimneys; branches broken off trees; shallow-rooted trees pushed over; sign boards damaged. The wind speed has to be less than 76 mph. A F1 tornado has some moderate damage. The lower limit is the beginning of hurricane wind speed (73 mph); peels surface off roofs; mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned; moving autos pushed off the roads; attached garages may be destroyed. The maximum limit is 112mph. A F2 tornado produces considerable damage. Roofs torn off frame houses; mobile homes demolished; boxcars overturned; large trees snapped or uprooted; light-object missiles generated. It's classified between 113 and 157 mph. A F3 tornado has severe damage. Roofs and some walls torn off well-constructed houses; trains overturned; most trees in forest uprooted; heavy cars lifted off the ground and thrown. Wind speed parameters are between 158 and 206 mph. A F4 tornado produces devastating damage. Well-constructed houses leveled; structures with weak foundations blown away some distance; cars thrown and large missiles generated. The winds blow between 207 and 260 mph. Finally, a F5 tornado has an incredible damage. Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 m (100 yd); trees debarked; steel reinforced concrete structures badly damaged; incredible phenomena will occur. That's all. I hope that this helped you.
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No, they are far more powerful than we are currently.\n\nI have started a Weather Blog in Yahoo 360 which has a 'live link' that is marvelous showing the entire hurricane area of the USA and Carribean.\n\nYou will find it especially valuable when hurricane season starts, but it is impressive right now.\n\nGo to the blog and then look at Blog Roll URLs on the left near the bottom.\n\nMuch other useful weather information there and to come.\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana
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Wind speed.  Hurricanes are measured in intensity based on wind speed.  There are 5 Categories of hurricanes, 1 being the weakest and 5 being the most powerful.\n\n* Category One -- Winds 74-95 miles per hour\n* Category Two -- Winds 96-110 miles per hour\n* Category Three -- Winds 111-130 miles per hour\n* Category Four -- Winds 131-155 miles per hour\n* Category Five -- Winds greater than 155 miles per hour
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To sum it up, a cyclone is cloud/storm system that spins, and a hurricane is a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean. Also, Cyclone is the name for Hurricane type storms that hit Australia. Confusing, I know.
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They'd have to be aerodynamic in all directions, this would take up more space than a normal home (it'd have to be flatter) on the other hand, they could all live in windmills in a tornado area and then there'd be loads of energy :)
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Tornadoes Would be second for me. In an F-5's path very little is left standing or alive if not underground. All other natural disasters even Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Wildfires don't even come close to %100 total destruction in its path, wake, or epicenter. An F-5 may not be a %100 but it is closest of any of the so far mentioned ones.\n\nBut Out of all Natural Disasters I think A supervolcano Eruption May Eclipse all Experienced Natural Disasters!
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I notice the Tropical Prediction Center issued a hurricane warning for part of Florida, though it is not quite a hurricane yet. That is standard procedure if it is expected to become a hurricane, but for tornadoes one must exist before the warning is issued.\n\nAlberto is not particularly impressive on satellite or radar images. There is nothing on the SW side because of wind shear. Yet with recon flights and winds from doppler radar, scatterometers, and microwave sounders - if there is a 65 knot wind somewhere in the storm they'll find it. So a category 1 hurricane aint what it used to be.\n\nThere will be heavy rain and severe storms associated with it. There will be very strong winds - probably hurricane force at some locations - directly along the coast S-E of the storm center. Yet there is no chance it will become anything more than a weak hurricane in a wind shear environment over oceans not particularly warm this time of year.\n\nThus people affected should definitely be prepared, but if it is hyped too much people are being setup for a strong storm some time later which they won't want to evacuate for but should.
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Increase.  I have seen a tornado up close, like right over head.  It brought in two different winds and they ran around in a circle.  The faster they blew, the stronger the storm.  A hurricane is like a great big whirlwind.  A large amount of the damage attributed to a hurricane is often done by the tornadoes it creates by the unstable air on its edges.  Best advice...Stay out of their way.
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i must imagine you are talking about vortices, like tornadoes, and hurricane eye walls, however it is a big misconception that the eye of the hurricane is a column, its eyewall is slanted, so it is bigger at the top than at the bottom, it gives you the illusion of being in a football stadium, that is way too huge.  And tornadoes are slightly like that, but mostly they are column like.  So in response to that Columns do rule, If you want to learn more about them you should become a meteorologist and do research on tornadoes and hurricanes, I am working on research on hurricane Katrina.
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It would depend on two things - the strength of the tornado, and the speed it travels along the ground.\n\nIf the tornado wasn't too powerful (say, F3 or lower) an object as massive as a tank would be safe from the winds.  If it could travel fast enough to keep up with the tornado, you could cruise to the center of the tornado with no problems.
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There has never been an F6 in recorded history.  No one has ever been in an F6.  For more info on the Fujita scale of Tornado Intensity, check out the website below: