Taking a Look at Hurricanes and Tornadoes

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Hurricanes and tornados are some of the many natural disasters that plague our planet. Hurricane and tornados have differences on how they are formed and where they are formed. Also much damage they can cause when they appear. They also appear in my different sizes after they take physical form. Those are some of the many differences on hurricanes and tornados.
Hurricanes and tornados both need warm and cold air to become Hurricane or tornados but are different is in forming. Hurricanes usually start off their lives as clusters of clouds and thunderstorms called tropical disturbances.(HowHurr) A hurricane develops when warm air rises from the oceans and hits cold air and fuse, after fusing, the fused air forces the warm air into the atmosphere, which become the tropical disturbance. As the warm air is being forced out, a patent of wind which spiral up in the eye of the storm with water viper form the oceans keep on fueling this rotation until it become a hurricane. (youtube)
Unlike a hurricane that is form in the ocean a tornado is form on flat land. When cold and warm airs from different direction collide with each other they form a huge thunderstorm called a super cell. When air from two different altitudes begin to go at two different speeds they begin to form a funnel in between called a wind shear. (eo.ucar) When a part of the wind shear gets caught in the super cell upper draft, the speed of the upper draft will make the column go much faster curating a funnel cloud. (eo.ucar) When the funnel cloud is visible rain or hail from the storm will push down on the tail of the funnel cloud until it touches down on land making it a tornado.
After the Hurricanes and tornado are have passed by and vanish, many people see the dive...

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...damage and deaths from both natural disasters by giving people warnings when they are about to appear. Both are very difference in shape and sizes and are very unpredictable on how big they will because once they take from and hit land. Hurricanes and tornados have always been natural disasters that plague our planet for many centuries now and with out a doubt will continue to wreak havoc on earth.

Works Cited

http://www.eo.ucar.edu/kids/dangerwx/tornado3.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iN352idLks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bHSS1ImFQI http://disasterandemergencysurvival.com/archives/how-much-damage-did-hurricane-katrina-cause http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/19/progress-after-joplin-tornado/2322167/ http://www.diffen.com/difference/Hurricane_vs_Tornado http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/23/missouri-town-joplin-ravaged-tornado

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