What's the difference between a tornado and cyclone?

Question

oh and what's a typhoon?

Answer 1

Cyclone is on the coast/over water, tornado is on land away from large bodies of water...

Answer 2

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.

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.

Answer 3

tornado is on land, cyclone is over water

Answer 4

A Tornado is usually a localized event that forms over land, a cyclone is a regional event that forms over water.

Answer 5

Tornado is swirling wind which moves at high speed destroying by Wind power, damage is localized and in small area where tornado would pass from.

Tornado could damage  area (across) side to side could be maximum 50-60m. So your neighbor might lose his house and you would be safe.

While Cyclone is a storm system that brings rain and wind, its large and more to do with rain then with strong winds, it does have strong wind but Wind damage isn't as much as Water.

It could be 100-300km across, these aren't local, whole country could be effected by a single Cyclone, these are tropical storms but one in Asia are called Cyclones and the ones that hit East US are called Hurricanes.