What is the difference between a hurricane watch and a hrricane warning??
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Most of these answers are describing tornado watches/warnings. Hurricanes differ greatly.  If your area is under a hurricane watch it means the hurricane is within 36 hours from the coast and it is possibly going to land in that certain area.  At this point the area is several hundred miles long and on the weather map it is shaded YELLOW.  When a hurricane warning is put out it is narrowed down to a certain area and is within 24 hrs from hitting land.  The area on the weather map is now shaded RED. \nIt has nothing to do with "spotting" the storm.  The storm has been tracked for several days or weeks before watches or warnings are announced.  I hope this helps you and I didn't confuse you too bad.\n\nADDED:\nBetween June 1st and November 30th all the coastal areas are favorable for a hurricane so according to some of these answers we (coastal areas) are in a constant hurricane watch for 5 months!!! LOL
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Perhaps Jimbo and shaved lady ARE the authorities to be alerted.  \n\nThose storms were pretty nasty, from what I saw on the news.  Why not just move down here to New Orleans?  We have MUCH better weather!  LOL  \n\nLeave work early, go home, take a nap.
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There is no difference. A hurricane is just called different things in different parts of the world.
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Go read " A Cruiser's Guide to Hurricane Survival" from Cruising Guide Publications..174 pages on how to survive a hurricane in a sailboat, at anchor or on the dock....and how to evaluate where you are\n\nas far as insurance company wanting to know........you got it backward..the insurance company should tell you........there is no recognized Government list so the CG wont be any help........that says this harbor is safe.....be prepared for the ins. company to give you a hard time as to what "safe" is if you have to put in a claim........generally anyplace sheltered from wave action is  a better bet than not.....if your marina has a wide open fetch for waves to build up and batter a boat, find somewhere else.......and in a direct hit by a major storm, like when Hugo went through SC in 87, all bets are  off!
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In all reality, Hurricanes are thunderstorms that have gotten out of hand. The following website explains in further detail. It may be slow to load, but it's a great informative site! Hope this answers your question!\n\nhttp://science.howstuffworks.com/hurricane2.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane
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A tornado WATCH means conditions are right for a tornado to occur.  A tornado WARNING means a tornado has been sighted in the posted area or is visible on radar.
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Hurricane Names: from the FEMA kids website\n\nAll hurricanes are given names. Why is that? To help us identify storms and track them as they move across the ocean. Remember, there can be more than one hurricane at a time and without naming them, we could get confused and which storm we're talking about.\n\nFor hundreds of years, hurricanes in the West Indies were named after the particular saint's day on which the hurricane occurred. An Australian meteorologist began giving women's names to tropical storms before the end of the 19th century. In 1953, the U.S. National Weather Service, which is the federal agency that tracks hurricanes and issues warnings and watches, began using female names for storms. \n\nIn 1979, both women and men's names were used. One name for each letter of the alphabet is selected, except for Q, U and Z. For Atlantic Ocean hurricanes, the names may be French, Spanish or English, since these are the major languages bordering the Atlantic Ocean where the storm occur. \n\nSo who decides what names are used each year? The World Meteorological Organization uses six lists in rotation. The same lists are reused every six years. The only time a new name is added is if a hurricane is very deadly or costly. Then the name is retired and a new name is chosen.
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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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If it's on hurricanes, then try searching the National Hurricane Center's website--they have a lot of information.\n\nwww.nhc.noaa.gov
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warning\n\n\nwatch means conditions are favorable and be alert\n\nwarning means dopplar radar (usually) indicates the severe weather is already happening or will happen very soon...take cover immediately
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I don't have exact info, but these 2 sites seem to have info on the storm the night.  2nd site showed a Tornado Watch at 9:54 PM.\n\nhttp://www.weatherunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=amac3486&number=17&gallery=CURRWEATHER\n\nhttp://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:09jy2KPFroAJ:weather.kentucky.com/US/KY/Lexington.html%3Fmap%3DIRSatellite%26anim%3D0%26map%3DIRSatellite%26anim%3D0%26map%3DIRSatellite%26anim%3D0+storm+%22May+25%22+lexington+lightning&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8\n\nIf this is true, my condolences.
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Aside from the name, not much. Both are severe tropical systems that have wind speeds greater than 74 mph. \n\nThey are called "hurricanes" in the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. But once your go west across the International Dateline and into the western Pacific Ocean, they're called typhoons. And of course, the Australians, who have colorful names for just about everything, have their own term for hurricanes: "willy-willys." \n\nTyphoons generally tend to be stronger than hurricanes, but only because there's warmer water in the western Pacific and are better conditions for storm development. And they've been known to affect Seattle: Some of our strongest windstorms ever recorded were remnants of a typhoon in the western Pacific.
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A watch is when they THINK there is going to be a big storm and a warning is when someone has SPOTTED it
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I think I can tell from how you pose this question that you're looking with the intent of finding something to use for chasing. As an experienced spotter, the best advice I can give you first is to take a StormWarn spotter training course. You'll learn a lot about what you think you want to chase before doing so, and can get some tips. The tool I use is http://www.weathertap.com; for $6/month, you get near real-time Doppler - all fields, from all stations. You get NLDN data products, SPC/NOAA warnings, and extremely high-res (1 km grid spacing) visible satellite imagery. It's also available on Windows CE PDAs. Another tool, either independent of or combined with weathertap, would be the Professional Accuweather site, http://proa.accuweather.com. And, don't forget the Storm Prediction Center operational and experimental forecast products at http://www.spc.noaa.gov.
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Here's the one to bookmark.  National Weather Service, National Hurricane Center, Tropical Prediction Center.  All the satellite stuff you need and then some.
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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).
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a tsunami is caused by an earthquake deep in the ocean, and a hurricane is like a big tornato, thus meaning when hot and cold air meet, they swirl over the ocean and make a hurricane. \nhope i was of help!\nHappy Holidays, -creaive:)