What's the difference between a cyclone and a tornado?

Question

What's the difference between a cyclone and a tornado?

Answer 1

Cyclones are hurricanes it just depends on where you are to what they are called.  Tornado's occur on land.

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Answer 2

Cyclone - a region of low pressure area associated with stormy weather. it is sometime used to mean Depression. Tropical cyclones are also called hurricanes or typhoons.

Tornado - a violent storm with destructive whirlwinds.

Answer 3

A Tornado targets trailer parks and a cyclone targets a wider verity of things.

Answer 4

A cyclone is the same thing as a hurricane.  Hurricanes and tornado's are quite different for obvious reasons.

Answer 5

Cyclones and tornadoes are cyclonic phenomena, in that both consist of a mass of air that is whirling rapidly counterclockwise, but there are vast differences between them. The most important difference between the cyclone and the tornado is that the cyclone is a normal large-scale phenomenon--there are almost always cyclones somewhere within certain latitude belts of the northern hemisphere during many months of the year--but the tornado is a small-scale local phenomenon, and so inherently far more difficult to predict.