EARTH SCIENCE
NATURAL HAZARDS
Question
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tornado
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hurricane
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flood
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drought
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Detailed explanation-1: -A tornado is a violent storm with a column of rapidly rotating winds, having the appearance of a dark, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches from the sky to the ground .
Detailed explanation-2: -A tornado appears as a rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground with winds that can reach 300 miles per hour. The path of a tornado can be over a mile wide and extend for over 50 miles. Before a tornado hits, the wind may die down and the air may become very still.
Detailed explanation-3: -A tornado is also commonly referred to as a “twister” or the old-fashioned colloquial term cyclone.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hurricanes are essentially massive, spinning formations of multiple thunderstorms, while tornadoes are formed from a wind vortex from the hot, high-pressure wind of a single thunderstorm over land. Tornadoes can form from the thunderstorms that make up a hurricane, but they more commonly form from single thunderstorms.