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A cyclone is more like a hurricane.
In fact a hurricane is a type of cyclone.
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What terms is the most general cyclone tornado funnel cloud or a hurricane?
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.
Does a hurricane or a cyclone produce more rain?
A hurricane is a kind of cyclone, specifically an intense tropical cyclone. Generally speaking, a hurricane produces more rain than other types of cyclone.
What causes more damage a tornado a hurricane or an earthquake?
A hurricane
What is a violent tropical cyclone with winds 75 mph or more?
An hurricane.
Which is more destructive the winds of a hurricane or a tornado?
Generally tornado winds are more destructive that hurricane winds. Hurricane winds, however, cause damage over a much larger area than a tornado, so the overall amount of damage may be greater. The worst damage in a hurricane is usually the result of flooding.
Which is stronger cyclone hurricane typhoon or tornado?
A hurricane and a typhoon are the same strength, as they are the same type of storm only occurring in different regions. They are a kind of cyclone. Overall, a hurricane or typhoon is stronger than other varieties of cyclone. Due to their large size, such cyclone will release more energy than a tornado, but a tornado has stronger winds.
Which one of this is not a cyclone Bora Hurricane Tornado or Typhoon?
A Bora is not a cyclone. Tornadoes more features in common with cyclones, but they are technically not cyclones either.
What terms is the most general cyclone tornado funnel cloud or a hurricane?
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.
Does a hurricane or a cyclone produce more rain?
A hurricane is a kind of cyclone, specifically an intense tropical cyclone. Generally speaking, a hurricane produces more rain than other types of cyclone.
Which covers more hurricane or a tornado?
a hurricane
What causes more damage a tornado a hurricane or an earthquake?
A hurricane
Is hurricane and tornado in a bottle the same thing?
If you mean a hurricane in a bottle then yes, a hurricane in a bottle and a tornado in a bottle are the same thing. In shape, however, the vortex bears more resemblance to a tornado than a hurricane.
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 tornado killed 1300 people in 2008?
No such tornado happened in 2008. The Daulatpur-Saturia tornado in Bangladesh did kill 1300 people, but it was in 1989. It is the only tornado to have killed more than 1000 people. One possible source of confusion is Cyclone Nargis, which struck Myanmar in 2008, killing 130,000. This however was not a tornado but was basically a hurricane.
What is several hundred miles in diameter a tornado or a hurricane?
A hurricane. A tornado is usually no more than a quarter of a mile wide.
Which is bigger cyclones or tornadoes?
A cyclone is bigger than a tornado by far, but a tornado is usually more violent.
What is a swirling center of low air pressure?
In weather systems, a center of low pressure is called a depression in generic terms. More specific terms include cyclone, anticyclone, hurricane, typhoon and tornado, which are used to describe particular weather systems associated with low pressure centers.
