Tornado Vs Hurricane What S The Difference
But can you tell exactly how these disasters are different from one another? As we’ve just mentioned, both tornadoes and hurricanes are characterized by strong horizontal winds, but that’s where the similarities between them end. While tornadoes originate on land, hurricanes originate in water bodies. In terms of size, hurricanes are much larger than tornadoes, with a diameter over 300-400 times that of the latter. Hurricanes have half the wind speed of tornadoes but can last for much longer (about a couple of weeks)....