Do hurricanes and tropical storms produce tornadoes?
Often, but not always. There are great differences from storm to storm, not necessarily related to tropical cyclone size or intensity. Some landfalling hurricanes in the United States fail to produce any known tornadoes, while others cause major outbreaks. Though fewer tornadoes tend to occur with tropical depressions and tropical storms than with hurricanes, there are notable exceptions like TS Beryl in the Carolinas in 1994. Relatively weak hurricanes like Danny (1985) have spawned significant supercell tornadoes well inland, as have larger, more intense storms like Allen (1980) and Beulah (1967). Hurricane Beulah, in fact, caused the second biggest tornado outbreak on record in numbers, with 115. Hurricane-spawned tornadoes tend to occur in small, low-topped supercells within the outer bands, NNW through ESE of the center—mainly the northeast quadrant. There, the orientation and speed of the winds create vertical shear profiles somewhat resembling those around classic Great Plains s
