Tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms

Hurricanes are very large and damaging atmospheric phenomena, but their arrival can be days in advance.

Hurricanes bring destructive winds, torrential rains, floods, and tornadoes. A single storm can wreak havoc on populations, causing considerable losses and material losses.

Differences between tornado and hurricane. The first big difference is the place where they start to form.

All thunderstorms produce lightning, which does much more damage a year than tornadoes and hurricanes.

How do lightning strike in a storm? Take precautions of danger during a thunderstorm, where it forms and how it originates.

A tornado is a column of air with high angular velocity whose lower end is in contact with the Earth's surface and the upper end with a cloud, where masses of hot and cold air mix.

Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are exactly the same, but researchers give it different names depending on where in the world these atmospheric phenomena occur worldwide.

- It is called a hurricane when the same thing happens in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, the north of the eastern Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico.

- It is called a typhoon when the phenomenon is located in the western Pacific and in the Indian Ocean.

- The diameter of a tornado or eddy is much smaller than that of a tropical cyclone.

The tropical cyclone is a violent whirlwind that rises in the clouds and spreads to the Earth's surface. It is called ‘waterspout’ when it occurs over the sea or over lakes.

Most tornadoes are much less strong, and can survive a tornado if safety precautions are taken. Here we offer some safety tips to survive a tornado or hydrometeorological risks step by step, typhoon or hurricane.