Roy W. Spencer

While Hurricane Beryl apparently set a record for the number of tornado "warnings" in a single July day (110), the number of actual tornadoes reported was pretty typical (18 across 2 days). Hurricanes are strongly rotating, so the thunderstorms they produce are strongly rotating, and so doppler radar measured rotation triggers a warning. Hurricane-related tornadoes are usually pretty weak.

See here for a list of the number of reported tornadoes in every hurricane.

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