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What terms is the most general cyclone tornado funnel cloud or a hurricane?
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Cyclone is the most general of these terms. It describes virtually any broad scale low pressure system of which a hurricane is one variety. Tornado, funnel cloud, and hurricane describe much more specific events.
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When the tip of the funnel cloud touches the ground it becomes a?
tornado clouds
What are storms have a funnel shape?
hurricane
What is the difference between these blizzard tornado cyclone hurricane?
To start off, a cyclone is a large-scale low-pressure system with a closed circulation and a definec center of rotation. Cyclones come in several varieties includint tropical cyclone, mid-latitude cyclones, and polar lows. They bring various forms of stormy weather. A hurricane is an intense tropical cyclone ocurring in the Atlantic or eastern Pacific Oceans and producing sustained winds of at least 74 mph. A hurricane is primarily a warm-weather phenomenon that brings intense wind, torrentail rain, and often severe flooding. Hurricanes can only deveop over warm-ocean water. A blizzard is an intense snowstorm that produces winds to at least 35 mph and reduces visibility to less than 1/4 mile. Most blizzards are related to mid-latitude cyclones or polar lows. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground, and is often made vissible by a funnel cloud. Unlike the other phenomena listed, a tornado is a small-scale, short-lived event but is the most violent of all of them.
What is a tornado before it is a tornado?
Before a tornado touches down it is called a funnel cloud, which looks like a tornado but does not reach the ground. A funnel cloud develops from the mesocyclone of a supercell thunderstorm. A supercell thunderstorm is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone, which is a deep, continuously-rotating updraft.
Which of these is a narrow funnel of air extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud?
tornado
Is a tornado worse than a hurricane?
The winds in a tornado funnel are perhaps faster (and therefore more destructive) than a hurricane, but the diameter of a tornado is very very small compared with a hurricane.
What is the strongest wind between a hurricane tornado or a cyclone?
The highest wind ever measured by any device was during the Oklahoma City tornado in 1999. Josh Worman and the Doppler on Wheels measured winds of 318 mph in part of the funnel.
What is difference between a typhoon and a tornado?
A typhoon is a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the Western Pacific Area and the China seas. A tornado is a violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the middle west of America and charctarised by a long funnel shaped cloud extending towards the ground, made visible by condensation and debris
Is the Seymour tornado a funnel tornado?
Not sure what you mean by a funnel tornado. If you are referring to the Seymour, Texas tornado of April 10, 1979, it had a well-defined funnel and it was funnel-shaped. However, it did touch down so it was not merely a funnel cloud.
When the tip of the funnel cloud touches the ground it becomes a?
tornado clouds
What do you call a tornado that does not touch the ground?
A tornado that does not touch the ground is a funnel cloud.
How is a tornado different from a funnel cloud?
A funnel cloud is like a tornado only it does not reach the ground.
What is the relationship between a funnel cloud and a tornado?
A funnel cloud is a developing tornado that has not reached the ground.
The beginnings of a tornado are known as a funnel cloud?
Yes. A tornado is often visible as a funnel cloud as it develops.
A tornado starts out as a what?
A tornado starts out as a funnel cloud.
Where is the eye of the tornado?
The "eye" of a tornado is at the center of the funnel.
Is funnel cloud a nickname for tornado?
To some extent, yes. A funnel cloud is the visible portion of a tornado. However, not all funnel clouds are tornadoes. If the winds associated with a funnel cloud do not reach the ground then it is not a tornado. Conversely, if the winds do reach the ground the term funnel cloud is not usually used, and the event is simply called a tornado.
