What is the difference between a cyclone and a tornado.?

Question

What is the difference between a cyclone and a tornado.?

Answer 1

hink the easiest way to answer this question would be to define all three for you!

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from the base of a cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) cloud and touches the ground.

A hurricane is another name for a tropical cyclone. It's a warm core low pressure system that evolves over large bodies of warm waters. Tropical cyclones have organized circulation, and depending on how strong the sustained winds are...they are classified the following ways.

A tropical depression is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 38 mph or less. A tropical storm is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds between 39 and 73 mph. A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with maximum sustained winds of 74 mph or more.

Finally, a cyclone is another name for a hurricane in other parts of the world (Indian Ocean). A cyclone also refers to a low pressure system.

Answer 2

Both are areas of low  pressure.  And a tornado is a cyclone too.   Other cyclones are Hurricanes (Atlantic) and Typhoons (Pacific).

Answer 3

Tornado - a violently rotating column of air, usually less than 100 m (300 ft) in diameter, surrounding a core of extremely low air pressure. Wind speeds may exceed 320 km/h (200 mph)

Cyclone - a severe tropical storm in which winds with speeds in excess of 116 km/h (73 mph) blow around an area of intensely low pressure; towering clouds bring torrential rain.

Answer 4

cyclone like a hurricane just with more water and dif area