What is the difference of a cylcone and a tornado?

Question

What is the difference of a cylcone and a tornado?

Answer 1

Dont know i thought it was the same thing

Answer 2

A cyclone is much like a hurricane. A cyclone lasts way longer and has less wind power, with an eye in the center. A tornado spins in a counterclockwise direction in the Northern hemisphere and a  clockwise direction in the Southern hemisphere. Tornadoes could have winds up to 315M.P.H. They last way shorter than hurricanes or cyclones do. With cyclones you would have more of a warning than you would with a tornado. Meteorologists can predict when a hurricane or cyclone will occur about a week before it happens but can only predict when a tornado would happen about an hour or less of when it's supposed to touch down.

Answer 3

A cyclone is the same thing as a hurricane in that its damage is wide-spread (perhaps over several states).

A tornado is produced from a supercell thunderstorm and its damage is more localized.

Answer 4

A cyclone is generally a low-pressure system (as opposed to an anticyclone, which is a high).  Hurricanes are cyclones, as is any low pressure storm system.  They are large (10's to hundreds of miles in diameter).

A tornado is a local product of a rotating supercell thunderstorm.  Even the largest do not make a damage track more than maybe 500 yards wide. A tropical cyclone, on the other hand,  may cause damage over many miles across it's track.

DK