Damage scales exponentially with wind speed. Hurricanes max out around ~180MPH. That's the speed of a feisty F3 tornado. You can be "hit" by a hurricane and be

Damage scales exponentially with wind speed. Hurricanes max out around ~180MPH. That's the speed of a feisty F3 tornado. You can be "hit" by a hurricane and be fine unless it's the eye or you get some debris in higher winds further out. Any hit from a tornado brings the full force of a thin column of debris whirling at that speed.