Behind you, a colossal hurricane, moments away from making landfall. In front of you, a towering tornado, fast-tracking its way toward the opposing storm. And you. Time’s run out. Escape is futile. Would they merge into a new kind of catastrophe? How much would it be capable of destroying? And can you survive this clash of wind titans?
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00:00 Clash of wind titans
00:48 How are hurricanes formed?
03:17 The Fujiwara dance
05:19 Two possible outcomes
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A Category 4 Hurricane and a EF4 Tornado
Category 1-Category 3 hurricane
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I'm In Alabama. We always have tornado watches/warnings with hurricanes. They won't meet head to head, hurricanes spawn tornadoes. It's why the south have more dangerous tornadoes then tornado alley.
Why does a Tornado Strike a Hurricane
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When a hurricanes spins and forms a tornado in the eye slowly going towards the ground
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Actually, hurricanes can make themselves stronger by absorbing other storms (not tornados), such as snow storms, making a hurricane/snow storm hybrid. They become blizzards; in particularly in the Northeastern United States, they are called "nor'easters".
That would be scary
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hurricanes literally spawn tornadoes
3:42 Iris was a Category 2 hurricane and karen was actually a tropical storm you can watch force thirteens video of an animation
I’m sorry but both the premise of this video and the content is absurd. Tornadoes and hurricanes are on completely different scales of size, they would not rotate around each other. The tornado’s parent thunderstorm would just get absorbed by the hurricane’s outer rain bands. There’s so much more to say but I couldn’t possibly cover it all here.
4:14 that sounded familiar….
What if two tornadoes collided together
Won't the tornado just join the hurricane
If a tornado were to hit a hurricane, the effects would likely be severe and destructive. The strong winds and heavy rainfall of a hurricane combined with the rotating winds of a tornado could cause extensive damage to buildings and infrastructure. The potential for loss of life would also be high. However, it is relatively rare for tornadoes to occur within hurricanes as the conditions that lead to the formation of these storms are typically distinct.
How about the category 4 HURRICANE "ian"
6:05
What if what if
If a hurricane crashed into a tornado = a hurrnado
If they merge… call it a tornadocane
What if? It would never happen. You are talking about two different weather phenomena.
Tornadoes usually happen or rather supercells from warm moist air clashing with colder air and wind shear either speed or directional. Hurricanes happen when the sea is warm and a wave in the winds with enough updraft to enclose the circulation.
But your scenario would never happen because in reality a cold front directs hurricanes and repels them so far away from one another. The Fujiwara effect will influence a weaker tropical system around it and may combine eventually. So what if will never happen.
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i love a good Karen destroying story
If the hurricane and tornado collides, I'll call it "torcane"
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