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Is a cyclone a tornado

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Otis Rolfson

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Updated: 7/27/2021

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.

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