Difference between tornado and cyclone?

Question

Difference between tornado and cyclone?

Answer 1

cyclones start on water! tonado hits the ground from funnel clouds.

Answer 2

cyclones occur in the southern hemisphere?

Answer 3

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. Tornadoes come in many sizes but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, whose narrow end touches the earth and is often encircled by a cloud of debris.

Most tornadoes have wind speeds between 40 mph (64 km/h) and 110 mph (177 km/h), are approximately 250 feet (75 m) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. Some attain wind speeds of more than 300 mph (480 km/h), stretch more than a mile (1.6 km) across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 km).[1][2][3]

Although tornadoes have been observed on every continent except Antarctica, most occur in the United States.[4] They also commonly occur in southern Canada, south-central and eastern Asia, east-central South America, Southern Africa, northwestern and southeast Europe, Italy, western and southeastern Australia, and New Zealand.

In meteorology, a cyclone is an area of low atmospheric pressure characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere of the Earth.[1][2] The generic term covers a wide variety of meteorological phenomena. These include tropical cyclones and extratropical cyclones, so meteorologists rarely use "cyclone" without additional qualification. Cyclogenesis describes the process of development for extratropical cyclones,[3] while tropical cyclogenesis describes the process of development of tropical cyclones. Tropical cyclones, polar lows, and mesocyclones are smaller warm core systems which lie within the mesoscale, while extratropical cyclones and polar cyclones are larger cold core systems which are on the synoptic scale.[4][5] Cyclones have also been seen on other planets outside of the Earth, such as Mars and Neptune.

Answer 4

A cyclone(In Indian ocean,tropical revolving storms are called cyclones) is a large scale atmospheric vortex characterised by low central pressure and counter-clockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere-or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.This is also known as hurricanes or typhoons elsewhere.

A tornado, on the other hand, is a powerful small scale vortex associated with a thunderstorm.

Answer 5

Cyclones are clockwise and tornados are anti-clockwise. Also, tornados are faster and form from higher atmospheric pressure.

Answer 6

a  tornado is a more intense and smaller rotating storm usually asscociate with thunderstorm fronts usually over land as a result of cold and warm air colliding.

a cyclone is a larger tropical storm that forms over the ocean near the equator and is  more the result of a low air pressure system that is fed by warm water.

Answer 7

Cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons are all the same thing.  just different names from different cultures.  tornado's are a much smaller funnel system then a hurricane system, but create much higher wind velocities for a shorter period of time.  A tornado over water is a waterspout.