No. A cyclone can produce tornadoes, but it cannot become one. They are two very different types of weather event.
A cyclone is bigger than a tornado by far, but a tornado is usually more violent.
Yes. A tornado is orders of magnitude smaller than a tropical cyclone. Most tornadoes are no more than a few hundred yards wide and rarely over a mile. By contrast a tropical cyclone is usually hundreds of miles wide.
Yes, Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone.
It varies. Technically a cyclone can be almost any large scale low pressure system with a closed circulation, and most such systems are not damaging. However, hurricanes and similar storms, which are a kind of cyclone, can cause far more damage and have much higher death tolls than tornadoes. Both the costliest and deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history were hurricanes (Hurricane Katrina and the 1900 Galveston hurricane respectively). It can be even more complicated however, as cyclones can cause tornadoes.
- Its a feminine cyclone because its name is TRACY. - Tracy was a girl i knew
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.
A tornado in Kansas.
No. Cyclones and tornadoes are completely different phenomena.
This most closely describes a tornado, though a tornado technically is not a cyclone.
A tornado is also commonly known as a cyclone.
No. A cyclone is a different kind of weather event.
A tornado in the southern hemisphere is still called a tornado.
No. While a tornado and a cyclone have a number of things in common, they are two different things. A tornado is a small-scale circulation that is dependent on a parent storm cell. A cyclone is a large-scale circulation that is its own independent weather system.
A cyclone is more like a hurricane. In fact a hurricane is a type of cyclone.
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.
cyclone, tornado, monsoon
No, Streator, Illinois was hit by a tornado, which is different from a cyclone.