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Hurricanes Vs Tornadoes
Tornadoes are more destructive than hurricanes. Tornadoes are more powerful than hurricanes. Tornadoes have a higher wind speed. Tornadoes hit small areas and destroy a lot. Hurricanes mostly knock down objects, Tornadoes picks up and throw the objects. In addition to tornadoes being more destructive, the reason is because of the wind speed.

Tornadoes wind speed is much higher than the hurricanes wind speed. The Fujita scale is for the different names and wind speeds for tornadoes. The F0- 40-72 mph, F1- 73-112,F2- 113-157 mph, F3-158-206 mph, F4-207-260 mph, F5- 261-318 mph, that is the scales for tornadoes. The Saffir Simpson scale is for the different names and wind speeds for hurricanes. Category 1- 74-95 mph, Category 2- 96- 110 mph,
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