What would be the biggest difference in cyclone versus tornado?

Question

What would be the biggest difference in cyclone versus tornado?

Answer 1

A cyclone is a lot bigger, like a hurricane. It can devastate an entire country (Myanmar).

A tornado is smaller and localized. It can damage one house, then disappear.

Answer 2

Cyclone forms over ocean surface and tornado forms over land surface.If cyclone enters land it gets weakened.

Answer 3

A cyclone isn't a tornado.... A CYCLONE is the same as a hurricane but its what they call it in the Eastern countries (anywhere in aisia)!

Answer 4

Rah2006 is correct. I imagine you asked because you heard some old-timers call tornadoes "cyclones", which they are not. This was fairly common until weather became a national obsession...for some odd reason, during the 1990's an since then.

Don't get me wrong...I"m all for it! I love meteorology and even took a course in it as an undergrad. But it DOES get too much repetitive attention these days. You see weather anchors flipping out over a tiny cold front!

I imagine their status has been elevated, sadly, since people finally realized that global warming is likely to wipe out a good portion of humanity.

Answer 5

A tornado does'nt carry water but a cyclone does.

Answer 6

a cyclone is formed by evaporated water in a sea or ocean, weakens when hits land and not has powerful than the tornado but cause a wider devestaing effect.

a tornado of formed by moving air fronts in an area where it would likely to happen like the tornado alley in the US, more powerful than a cyclone but in a smaller area than the cyclone and causes an ordinary item like a pen into a fatal object when it goes fast, really fast.