What If a Tornado Hit a Hurricane?

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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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  1. Hurricanes do spawn tornadoes when the strong outer bands make landfall. If a tornado would meet a hurricane, the hurricane would just absorb the storm producing the tornado and the twister would dissipate.

  2. Have you ever seen a tornado or a hurricane or any natural disaster because fire tornadoes are the strongest

  3. well actually a Tornado and a Hurricane won't merge at all since Tornadoes are spawned from thunderstorms
    the thunderstorm that spawn the tornado would more than likely get caught up in the Hurricanes circulation becoming the part of the Hurricanes outer rain bands just like any other thunderstorm that tries to get close to the Hurricane which is the middle or the eye wall of the storm which means that it would redirect the the track of the Tornado depending on which side of the storm it would get caught up in
    like on the left side?
    the Tornado would get redirected south to southwestward
    and/or
    on the right side the Tornado would get redirected north to northeastward

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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".

  8. 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.

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