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Are most cyclones tornadoes

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9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

No. Tornadoes and cyclones are different things. A cyclone is a large-scale low pressure system while a tornado is a small-scale vortex within a thunderstorm. Most cyclones are mid-latitude cyclones.

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