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Florida resident. Sideways rain is pretty common here. A hurricane is enormous compared to a thunderstorm and spins, just like a tornado, just slower. Storms go from Tropical Depressions, to Tropical Storms (Less than 75 mph) and go into Hurricane category where they are rated from 1 to a 5.
* 1 75-95 mph
* 2 96-110 mph
* 3 111-129 mph
* 4 130-156 mph
* 5 157+ mph
Where as a tornado is just pure wind power, the hurricane brings massive rain and often storm surges and flooding. The eye of the hurricane is low pressure and when over water, will lift a bubble of ocean water due to the low pressure which it brings onto shore causing a storm surge flood. As the ground gets wet, it gets soft and becomes much easier for trees to get blown over and the constant rain saturates the ground causing even more flooding.
A bad thunderstorm it just a bad thunderstorm. It will have wind, rain, thunder, lightning, go on for days some times, but it is not a rotating weather event that could cover a state.
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