what is the difference between a typhoon, a tornado, a cyclone, a whirlwind, a tsunami and a twister?

Answer 1

Some of the things you listed are the same thing. A cyclone and a typhoon are tropical cyclones just like a hurricane. A tornado and twister are the same exact thing. A tsunami is caused by an earthquake under water. A whirlwind is kinda like a tornado, but it's nowhere near as strong and isn't developed in the same manner.

Answer 2

Hurricane, Cyclone and Typhoon are the same phenomenon only called by those different terms in different regions of the world. Hurricane is use in America, Typhoon in Asia, Cyclone (or Tropical Cyclone) in Australia and the South Pacific. Cyclones/Typhoons/Hurricanes are usually borne over warm tropical waters and dissipate some time after they make landfall over a continent. A Tornado is born over land and causes damage in a very tight corridor at much higher speeds. A tornado can arrive as quickly as it departs. Note: Hurricanes and Typhoons rotate the in the opposite direction to Cyclones (which are a southern hemisphere thing).

Answer 3

A galaxy and a whirlwind, a tornado,a typhoon have a common feature. It is the upper shape are similar to.But a galaxy and the three remainder have a big difference also. It is the fact the side-shape are really different.So I think the reason why, it is the point that a galaxy happenes in universe, the remainder happenes inside the earth. So if in zero gravity state , we revolve and pull out a water mill thing inside a smoke mass. it's shape will be a galaxy shape. Now here zero gravity state is important.But this doesn't mean galaxy is in zero gravity state but the result of the space test(zero gravity test)-mechanism is applied to galaxy system. Whatever it is for a gravity or black hole, etc, inside a nebula gaseous mass.

Answer 4

A TYPHOON/CYCLONE:
i think they're the same thing. basically, a hurricane over the pacific ocean, it forms slightly different than a hurricane

A TORNADO/TWISTER:
those 2 are the same thing, a funnel-cloud that forms typically on land, but they do form over the ocean as well. can be anywhere from <60 to 318. can be given a rating F0-F5 on the Fujita Scale. most dangerous storm.

A WHIRLWIND:
alot like a derecho, which is like a tornado, but a fast moving straight-line wind

A TSUNAMI:
tsunamis are impossible to predict. they can only occur in the Indian Ocean. an undersea disturbance/earthquake occurs when techtonic plates slide a couple inches past each other or on top of each other, causing strong, fast moving, waves deep in the ocean, once those travel far enough they come near land and rise closer to the surface. when they hit land they cause mass destruction.

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PS-sorry there are only brief descriptions

Answer 5

BASICALLY, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TYPHOON, CYCLONE, AND A HURRICANE, IS THE OCEAN, OR SEA, THAT IT ORIGINATES IN. A TSUNAMI IS THE SURGE OF WATER AS A RESULT OF AN UNDERWATER (OCEAN) EARTHQUAKE. A WHIRLWIND AND A TWISTER, IS SIMILAR TO A TORNADO, (FORMED OVER LAND) BUT NOT THOUGHT TO HAVE THE SAME WIND VELOCITY.

Answer 6

Tornado, cyclone, twister are all tornadoes. Tsunami is a huge wave. A typhoon is a tornado over water. A whirlwind is a mini (VERY mini) tornado, also called a dust devil in the Southwest.

Answer 7

A tsunami is from an under water earthquake which creates a massive wall of water. the rest of them are all wind related

Answer 8

A tropical cyclone is a warm storm system fueled by thunderstorms near its center. It feeds on the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor in it condenses. The term describes the storm's origin in the tropics and its cyclonic nature, which means that its circulation is counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. Tropical cyclones are distinguished from other cyclonic windstorms such as nor'easters, European windstorms, and polar lows by the heat mechanism that fuels them, which makes them "warm core" storm systems. Depending on their location and strength, there are various terms by which tropical cyclones are known, such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, and tropical depression.

Tropical cyclones can produce extremely strong winds, tornadoes, torrential rain, high waves, and storm surge. They are born and sustained over large bodies of warm water, and lose their strength over land. This is the reason coastal regions can receive significant damage from a tropical cyclone, while inland regions are relatively safe from receiving strong winds. Heavy rains, however, can produce significant flooding inland, and storm surges can produce extensive coastal flooding up to 25 miles/40 km inland. Although their effects on human populations can be devastating, tropical cyclones can also relieve drought conditions. They carry heat away from the tropics, an important mechanism of the global atmospheric circulation that helps maintain equilibrium in the Earth's troposphere.

Tropical cyclones are referred to using many different terms; these terms depend on the basin in which the tropical cyclone is located, as well as its intensity. If a tropical storm in the Northwestern Pacific reaches hurricane-strength winds on the Beaufort scale, it is referred to as a typhoon; if a tropical storm passes the same benchmark in the rest of the Pacific Ocean, or in the Atlantic, it is called a hurricane.[4]

Moreover, each basin uses a separate system of terminology, making comparisons between different basins difficult. In the Pacific Ocean, hurricanes from the Central North Pacific sometimes cross the International Date Line into the Northwest Pacific, becoming typhoons (such as Hurricane/Typhoon Ioke in 2006); on rare occasions, the reverse will occur. It should also be noted that typhoons with sustained winds greater than 130 knots (240 kilometres per hour or 150 mph) are called Super Typhoons by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.[5]

There are many regional names for tropical cyclones, including Bagyo in The Philippines[6] and Taino in Haiti, but they are not used in operational warnings by the various tropical cyclone warning centers.

From the Chinese 大風 (daaih fūng (Cantonese); dà fēng (Mandarin)) which means "great wind."[14] (The Chinese term as 颱風 táifēng, and 台風 taifū in Japanese, has an independent origin traceable variously to 風颱, 風篩 or 風癡 hongthai, going back to Song 宋 (960-1278) and Yuan 元(1260-1341) dynasties. The first record of the character 颱 appeared in 1685's edition of Summary of Taiwan 臺灣記略).[15]
From Urdu, Persian or Arabic ţūfān[15] (طوفان) Greek tuphōn (Τυφών).[16]
Portuguese tufão is also related to typhoon. See Typhon for more information.
The word hurricane is derived from the name of a native Caribbean Amerindian storm god, Huracan, via Spanish huracán.[17]
The word cyclone was coined by a Captain Henry Piddington, who used it to refer to the storm that blew a freighter in circles in Mauritius in February of 1845.[18] Tropical cyclones are then circular wind storms that form in the tropics.

A cyclone is a low pressure atmospheric mass. In the northern hemisphere they rotate counterclockwise. A high pressure mass is called an anticyclone and rotates clockwise.

Anyway, we DO have various violent low pressure events. Under certain circumstances, a cyclonic mass can get itself worked up into a frenzy and it will start winding itself up faster and tighter as conditions permit, until you end up with a hurricane.

Atlantic hurricanes are birthed almost entirely in one of two places: the Gulf of Mexico and the west coast of Africa. Interestingly the African low pressure pockets seem to form over land, and then pinwheel on out to sea on a journey to the Caribbean. Where they typically are picked up by the Jet Stream.

Hurricanes and typhoons are the same animal depending on where you live. In the Atlantic They are refered to as Hurricanes(and often the North American Pacific coast, where they are quite rare) they are called Typhoons.

Cyclones, hurricanes and tornadoes. To swipe a line from the 3 Stooges, they're all "the same thing...only different".

To go a step beyond your question, tornadoes are a special breed of spinning low pressure air mass. For one thing, we still don't know for sure how they form. One big theory scientists were studying about 10 years ago was the possibility that fluid mechanics generated rapidly spinning HORIZONTAL tubes of air inside storm cells. Somehow these tubes are knocked off kilter and one end of a tube (or tubes) would suddenly start descending towards the ground. And usually form over land. When formed over water, they are known as Water Spouts.

A tsunami is a different beast, Tsunamis can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the Earth’s crust can occur at plate boundaries. Subduction earthquakes are particularly effective in generating tsunamis. As an oceanic plate is subducted beneath a continental plate, it sometimes brings down the lip of the continental with it. Eventually, too much stress is put on the lip and it snaps back, sending shockwaves through the Earth’s crust, causing a tremor under the sea, known as an undersea earthquake.

Submarine landslides (which are sometimes triggered by large earthquakes) as well as collapses of volcanic edifices may also disturb the overlying water column as sediment and rocks slide downslope and are redistributed across the sea floor. Similarly, a violent submarine volcanic eruption can uplift the water column and form a tsunami.

Tsunamis are surface gravity waves that are formed as the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity and radiate across the ocean like ripples on a pond.

In the 1950s it was discovered that larger tsunamis than previously believed possible could be caused by landslides, explosive volcanic action, and impact events. These phenomena rapidly displace large volumes of water, as energy from falling debris or expansion is transferred to the water into which the debris falls. Tsunamis caused by these mechanisms, unlike the ocean-wide tsunamis caused by some earthquakes, generally dissipate quickly and rarely affect coastlines distant from the source due to the small area of sea affected. These events can give rise to much larger local shock waves (solitons), such as the landslide at the head of Lituya Bay which produced a water wave estimated at 50 – 150 m and reached 524 m up local mountains. However, an extremely large landslide could generate a megatsunami that might have ocean-wide impacts.

The geological record tells us that there have been massive tsunamis in Earth's past. These tsunamis were so large that they caused landslides on the opposite coast triggering another massive tsunami, or "bounce back" tsunami. An example today would be a landslide equivalent to everything west of Portland (Oregon, USA) falling in to the Pacific ocean, resulting in a tsunami that would then hit the Chinese coast with enough force to erode the coast, triggering a landslide large enough to send a tsunami that would in turn inundate the US west coast and would wipe out Portland.

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