Tornado Compare And Contrast

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This is a comparison of how different and how are tornadoes and hurricanes the same. So, the first thing that's different about them i have is you have a lot of time to tell when a monstrous hurricane is coming but with a tornado it is like magic you don't get a couple days like you would a tornado a tornado just appears.

Now here's a comparison of the two There are signs that a tornado and a hurricane is about to happen here are the things that will happen if a tornado is going to hit. There is a dark often greenish sky, walls of clouds approaching a cloud of debris, large hail often in absence of rain and the last sine of a tornado is before it strikes the wind may die down and, the air will become

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