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A cyclone and a tornado are two different things. A cyclone is virtually any large scale atmospheric low pressure system with rotation. These systems often bring rain, thunderstorms, and sometimes blizzards they are not necessarily violent or severe.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. Unlike cyclones tornadoes are small scale circulations that are violent by definition and are completely dependent on a larger parent storm.
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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 is a tornado called in the southern hemisphere?
A tornado in the southern hemisphere is still called a tornado.
Spiral wind rotating around region of low pressure is called?
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Was there a tornado or a cyclone in the wizrd of oz?
A tornado in Kansas.
Is the most dangerous tornado and violent tornado a cyclone?
No. Cyclones and tornadoes are completely different phenomena.
What is the typical name for a tornado?
There usually called a 'tornado' sometimes they are called twisters. Sometimes they are called landspouts and over water they are called a waterspouts. They are a type of cyclone which is any kind of whirling wind.
Is a tornado some times called a cyclone?
Sometimes tornadoes are called tornadoes, though it is technically incorrect to do so.
What is a violent cyclone of small diameter over land?
This most closely describes a tornado, though a tornado technically is not a cyclone.
What is a tornado commonly known as?
A tornado is also commonly known as a cyclone.
What is the center of a tornado called?
The center of a tornado is often referred to at its eye, though a true eye only forms in tropical cyclones (e.g. hurricanes). If such an eye-like structure is detected it is called the weak echo region.the center of a tornado is called the eye.
Is a cyclone another name for a tornado?
No. A cyclone is a different kind of weather event.
What is the most famous tornado in literature?
Probably the one that took Dorothy to Oz from Kansas. She called it a cyclone.
