Thursday, April 14, 2011

Hurricanes and Tornadoes

We can see that the table shows the differences between hurricanes and tornadoes by seven features.          
 74mph and 40 mph are the minimum wind speeds of hurricanes tornadoes respectively. The maximum wind speed of the most severe storms of hurricanes is between 155 and 200 mph, but between 250 and 300 mph for tornadoes. The classification scale is the Safire, Simpson C1 and C5 for hurricanes and the Fujita F0 and F5 for tornadoes. The hurricanes take 1 week on average but only a few minutes to a few hours for tornadoes. The average width of hurricanes is 300 miles but only 100 to 1.5 km wide for tornadoes. The hurricanes last from 2 to 3 days but 20 minutes maximum for tornadoes. The hurricanes starts over warm oceans but tornadoes start usually over land.
           From the table information we found that hurricanes are not stronger than tornadoes but it is last longer than tornadoes. Also tornadoes start over land but hurricanes start over oceans.

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