What is the difference between a cyclone, hurricane, and a tornado?

Question

What is the difference between a cyclone, hurricane, and a tornado?

Answer 1

a cyclone and a tornado are the same thing.

a tornado is on land, and a hurricane is on/near the water. if a hurricane comes up on land, it becomes a tornado.

Answer 2

Tornado's are small and have allot of energy compacted. Hurricanes are the most destructive because they engulf larger areas. cyclones are not very destructive, they could blow small objects around

Answer 3

tornadoes occur over land , cyclones are in the Pacific ocean, hurricanes are in the Atlantic ocean

Answer 4

a tornado is a eupopean jet fighter/ bomber a huricane is a 2nd world war fighter and a cyclone i think is a type of vacum cleaner

lol

Answer 5

cyclone is a water tornado

tornado is really fast a pretty small compared to a hurricane and is also pretty fast

a hurricane is huge compared to a tornado and is really slow and filled with water so its basically a much more devastating, slow cyclone thats on land

Answer 6

So, first, when dealing with cyclones and tornados, you have to understand a little bit of history. About a hundred years ago, cyclones and tornadoes were considered pretty much the same thing -- land based circular wind storms. But that doesn't hold true today. Technically, a cyclone is any kind of circular wind storm. But now, only used to describe a strong tropical storm found off of the coast of India, something you definitely would not call a tornado. As for hurricanes and typhoons, well, that was a bit of a trick question. Hurricanes and Typhoons are the same thing, but in different places. If you're standing on the coast of Florida and there's a strong tropical storm coming, you may be hit by a hurricane. If you're fishing in the Philipines, be careful, because you're in typhoon territory.

Hurricanes happen in the Atlantic and typhoons happen in the Pacific, it just that simple. So basically, hurricanes and typhoons form over water and are huge, while tornados form over land and are much smaller in size. But, try telling that to the cows in Kansas. As for the term cyclone, you can attach that to any circular wind storm you want, for now.

Answer 7

Tornadoes and cyclones are the same thing with Tornadoes occurring on land and cyclones happening over water.

Hurricanes are large storm systems which are build on warm water.  A hurricane could have cyclones or tornadoes in it.  But you can't actually see a hurricane on land.  All you see is a storm with wind and rain; whereas, you can see the actual tornado or cyclone.  To see the entire hurricane you must be looking at a satellite view.

Answer 8

cyclone is a tornado over water(so pretty much the same thing).

And a hurricane is a large storm cell that's starts over warm waters and move onto land, depleting in size as they move over land.

Answer 9

First off. You all are wrong. I went to a meteorological website and came up with this: We have hurricanes, Southern Asia gets cyclones. They are one and the same, only named different due to geographical location. Tornados have nothing to do with the other two, they are their own species.

Answer 10

Well I know a hurricane is something that is created over water, adnd once it hits land it dies down....a tornado occurs on land mostly but can occur over water too...a hurricane has stronger winds and can cause more damage because they are usually way bigger...that's all I know sorry...i was wondering this question too today, after reading about the Burma Cyclone

Edit...Lucifer you are soooo WRONG...the cyclone in Burma just killed over 22,500 people and counting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 11

a cyclone in what they both are.

A tornado is a warm current reaching a cold current creating a twistaaaa!

A hurricane is a cyclone in the water.  :D