Why do we name hurricanes but not tornadoes?
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Zack Be Gone - All Hail Firebrand.
ANSWERS: 3
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Because there are too many tornadoes, and there can be many at the same time, and they can spawn others. So a tornado is a lot harder to specifically define. Would the original tornado and those that spun off from it have the same name or different names? What about 5 or 10 at the same time? Also, you'd need at least 10 times the names as we go through for hurricanes, even if you did reach agreement on tornado naming and definition. +4 for ?
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Hurricanes (as well as Cyclones and Typhoons) take a substantial amount of time to build up and develop. During that time they can be tracked and monitored as they gradually head off towards a potential target. There are comparatively few per season and they are sufficiently significant to treat as individual events. Tornados develop very quickly and last a comparatively brief amount of time. A single tornado is capable of inflicting damage on a much smaller scale and in a more limited area. Though victims of a tornado might face tragedy, the scale of damage is minute compared to the potential damage of a hurricane. Hurricanes are named and tracked because they are bigger and more significant...and because they exist long enough to be identified. Tornados exist only very briefly and are gone soon after they come in to being. Professionals monitoring tornados do name and number them, but the general public doesn't have reason to use those names and numbers.
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In addition to the other answers that have been given, I would also point out that you can quite often get tornados forming in association with a hurricanes. So, are we going to give these tornados separate names or do they fall under the same name as the hurricane which spawned them?
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