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Tornadoes are significantly different from the rest. They are very tight high speed spinning columns of air. They’re at most a few kilometers in diameter which makes them far smaller than the rest. Some regions may refer to them as cyclones in common speech but they’re not what meteorologists mean when they say cyclones
Cyclones are the more general form for the rest. Its a large air mass that rotates around a low pressure center.
If the cyclone forms in the tropical regions of the Atlantic ocean or eastern Pacific then its a hurricane. If it forms in the central or western Pacific tropical regions then its a Typhoon. They’re the same type of storm just with different names in different regions
If it forms in the winter and runs ashore in New England it might get referred to as a Nor’easter
Weather stations in the states have gotten excited about referring to things a Bomb Cyclones when they would have just referred to them as “blizzards” back in the 90s
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