David R. Stuart, age 7, of Des Moines, Iowa, and  George C. Smith, Jr:3 age 11, of Montgomery, Ala., for their question:

How does a tornado compare with a hurricane?

A huge hurricane may be 400 miles wide and usually origninate over the ocean; a tornado is only about a quarter mile wide. Hundreds of little tornados could fit inside the calm eye of a hurricane. The big hurricane sweeps along its stormy path for days, the little tornado is over in a few minutes.
Both storms are round, with fierce winds spiraling towards the center where the air is swept up in a rising current. And what, the tornado lacks in size it makes up for in fury, its wind can reach very velocity and can blow very violently,  but the little twister is the fiercest storm in the world.