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What is the most dangerous storm?
Question Date: 2013-05-28
Answer 1:

It depends on what you mean by "dangerous".

Tornadoes are extremely lethal where they hit, but the deadly part of a tornado affects a very small area.

Hurricanes are huge, and can easily dwarf tornadoes in terms of the damage and deaths they can cause, but you're much more likely to survive getting hit by a hurricane than a tornado.

Ordinary thunderstorms are just really common, which means that the number of people who get killed by lightning strikes is large compared to the others.

Firestorms are probably the most deadly of all if you get caught in one, but they're also the easiest to avoid.

So yeah, it depends on what you mean.


Answer 2:

Typhoons are considered one of the most dangerous kinds of storms.



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