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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 is a tornado called in the southern hemisphere?
A tornado in the southern hemisphere is still called a tornado.
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 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 violent cyclone of small diameter over land?
This most closely describes a tornado, though a tornado technically is not 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.
What is a tornado commonly known as?
A tornado is also commonly known as a cyclone.
What is the most famous tornado in literature?
Probably the one that took Dorothy to Oz from Kansas. She called it a cyclone.
Is a cyclone 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.
Where was the deadliest tornado in Canada?
The Regina, Saskatchewan tornado (popularly called the Regina Cyclone) of June 30, 1912 is the deadliest Canadian. It killed 28 people.
Is there another name for tornado?
Tornadoes are often called twisters. Some will also call them cyclone, though this is not quite correct, as the term cyclone refers to something different.
