What is the difference between a tornado hurricane and a cyclone?

Answer 1

Hurricanes:

• Are typically hundreds of miles wide.
• Form only over warm ocean water.
• Last for days and sometimes well over a week.
• Produce rain and flooding in addition to powerful winds.
• Are independent, self sustaining storm systems.
• Have winds ranging from 74 to about 200 mph

Tornadoes:

• Are rarely over a mile wide
• Usually form over land
• Usually last minutes, rarely a few hours
• Cause damage via wind and debris
• Are dependent on a large storm to develop and keep going
• have winds ranging from 65 to about 300mph
• Often have a condensation funnel.

Cyclones are a somewhat different as they are a broader category. A hurricane is a type of cyclone.

A cyclone is any independent, large-scale low pressure system with closed cyclonic circulation. They often bring rain and can produce strong winds and thunderstorms, but they are not necessarily severe or damaging.

Answer 2

A hurricane is a tropical cyclone with sustained winds of at least 74 mph. Cyclone is the more generic term for a low pressure system, which is not necessarily tropical in nature. Characteristics.

• A hurricane is its own, self-sustaining storm system.
• Hurricanes are enormous, typically spanning several hundred miles in diameter.
• Hurricanes form over warm ocean water and are mostly limited to the tropics.
• Hurricanes produce heavy rain and flooding in addition to powerful winds

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending fro the base of a thunderstorm to the ground. Characteristics of tornadoes that are not like those of hurricanes:

• A tornado is dependent on a larger parent thunderstorm
• Tornadoes are small in weather terms, only a handful have been over 2 miles wide.
• Tornadoes typically form over land and can form almost anywhere, but are most common intemperate regions
• Tornadoes a chiefly a wind event.
• Tornadoes are usually made visible by a condensation funnel.

Answer 3

Tornadoes are localized, rotating columns of air that form in severe thunderstorms, while hurricanes are large, rotating storms that form over warm ocean waters. Cyclones are a more general term that can refer to either hurricanes or typhoons, which are tropical cyclones that form over the Pacific Ocean.