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What is the difference between a tornado hurricane and a cyclone?
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Hurricanes:
- Are typically hundreds of miles wide.
- Form only over warm ocean water.
- Last for days and sometimes well over a week.
- Produce rain and flooding in addition to powerful winds.
- Are independent, self sustaining storm systems.
- Have winds ranging from 74 to about 200 mph
Tornadoes:
- Are rarely over a mile wide
- Usually form over land
- Usually last minutes, rarely a few hours
- Cause damage via wind and debris
- Are dependent on a large storm to develop and keep going
- have winds ranging from 65 to about 300mph
- Often have a condensation funnel.
Cyclones are a somewhat different as they are a broader category. A hurricane is a type of cyclone.
A cyclone is any independent, large-scale low pressure system with closed cyclonic circulation. They often bring rain and can produce strong winds and thunderstorms, but they are not necessarily severe or damaging.
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∙ 12y agoA hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 mph. Cyclone is the more generic term for a low pressure system, which is not necessarily tropical in nature. Characteristics.
- A hurricane is its own, self-sustaining storm system.
- Hurricanes are enormous, typically spanning several hundred miles in diameter.
- Hurricanes form over warm ocean water and are mostly limited to the tropics.
- Hurricanes produce heavy rain and flooding in addition to powerful winds
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending fro the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. Characteristics of tornadoes that are not like those of hurricanes:
- A tornado is dependent on a larger parent thunderstorm
- Tornadoes are small in weather terms, only a handful have been over 2 miles wide.
- Tornadoes typically form over land and can form almost anywhere, but are most common intemperate regions
- Tornadoes a chiefly a wind event.
- Tornadoes are usually made visible by a condensation funnel.
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Is a cyclone more close to a tornado or a hurricane?
A cyclone is more like a hurricane. In fact a hurricane is a type of cyclone.
What is a winds spiraling outward?
a hurricane, tornado, cyclone or anticyclone
Is a cyclone a type of hurricane or tornado?
Neither. A cyclone is a broad scale low pressure system with cyclonically spiraling winds. A hurricane is one variety of cyclone, but not all cyclones are hurricanes. A tornado is an entirely different type of weather phenomenon.
Which continent has never had a typhoon and tornado?
Antarctica has never recorded a tornado or a tropical cyclone (hurricane or typhoon).
Are hurricanes and tornadoes both types of cyclones?
No. A hurricane is a type of cyclone, but a tornado is not. A cyclone is a large-scale weather system. A tornado is a small-scale circulation.
What is the difference between storms?
a tornado, typhoon, cyclone, twister, and hurricane are pretty much the same.
Is a cyclone more close to a tornado or a hurricane?
A cyclone is more like a hurricane. In fact a hurricane is a type of cyclone.
Which is stronger cyclone hurricane typhoon or tornado?
A hurricane and a typhoon are the same strength, as they are the same type of storm only occurring in different regions. They are a kind of cyclone. Overall, a hurricane or typhoon is stronger than other varieties of cyclone. Due to their large size, such cyclone will release more energy than a tornado, but a tornado has stronger winds.
What country calls a cyclone a tornado?
No country really calls a cyclone a tornado. Some parts of the U.S. a tornado a cyclone, though a tornado and a cyclone are two different things. In the U.S. however a strong tropical cyclone is called a hurricane.
What are synonyms of twister?
Tornado Cyclone Hurricane (with water)
What has eye but can not see?
A Tornado, a cyclone and a hurricane
What is bigger a tornado or a hurricane or a cyclone?
A hurricane is a kind of cyclone, however they are somewhat smaller than a few other varieties of cyclone. By comparison, tornadoes are tiny.
Which answer is not a cyclone tsunami polar low hurricane tornado?
Tsunami
What is a winds spiraling outward?
a hurricane, tornado, cyclone or anticyclone
Is a cyclone a type of hurricane or tornado?
Neither. A cyclone is a broad scale low pressure system with cyclonically spiraling winds. A hurricane is one variety of cyclone, but not all cyclones are hurricanes. A tornado is an entirely different type of weather phenomenon.
Which continent has never had a typhoon and tornado?
Antarctica has never recorded a tornado or a tropical cyclone (hurricane or typhoon).
Can a 747 stand up to a cyclone 5 tornado?
There is no such thing as a "cyclone 5 tornado." You can have a category 5 hurricane or an EF5 tornado. In either case, the answer would be no; there is too much turbulence.
