Hurricane, Tornado, Cyclone – What’s the Difference?

What is the difference between a tornado and a hurricane? And what about typhoon? First, let’s get it straight: all these weather phenomena have to do with strong winds. Not my-umbrella-got-torn-from-my-hands strong, mind you, but rather my-house-got-blown-away-to-the-Land-of-Oz kind of thing. Yet before we get to the actual difference between hurricanes and typhoons, we must understand that they’re one and the same thing called a tropical cyclone.

If you live in moderate or colder climates, there’s nothing for you to worry about, even if your house is right by the seaside, because you’ll only hear about cyclones from the news. After all, they’re called tropical for a reason: they only form in tropical or subtropical areas, because they need warm water to get things going.

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TIMESTAMPS:
Why a tropical cyclone is dangerous 0:40
A tropical depression 1:47
A tropical storm 2:29
Hurricane or typhoon? 2:50
But what about tornadoes? 3:50
The safest place of a tornado 5:12
How powerful a hurricane could be:
- Category 1 6:35
- Category 2 7:02
- Category 3 7:24
- Category 4 7:53
- Category 5 8:26

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SUMMARY:
- A tropical cyclone is a huge mass of clouds that gather in the sky and start rotating counter clock-wise due to very low air pressure.
- Cyclones occur much more often than you think! But only few of them grow large and strong enough to become hurricanes or typhoons.
- The weakest version of a tropical cyclone is called a tropical depression. It’s a similar swirling mass of clouds, usually accompanied by storms, but the force of winds in it is not very high.
- When the winds are stronger than 39 mph, the cyclone is then called a tropical storm. This is a more serious threat, and you’ll do well to hide inside your house because gusts of wind might reach 72 mph.
- And only if the wind gets even more powerful than that, then it can be called a hurricane or a typhoon.
- If a severe tropical cyclone with wind speeds of over 75 mph occurs in the North Atlantic or North-East Pacific, it’s called a hurricane. If it’s in the North-West Pacific, then it’s a typhoon.
- We hear more about hurricanes than typhoons because the Atlantic Ocean is warmer than the Pacific, and warm water acts like a fuel for cyclones.
- Tornadoes can form almost anywhere they please, both over sea and over land. But there’s much more to it than that.
- A tornado is a swirling funnel of air coming down from the sky. It appears during thunderstorms, and it’s rather a consequence than a reason for severe weather.
- But despite its terrible power, a tornado is a very local event, and short-lived at that. The biggest one ever registered by scientists was just over 1.5 mi in diameter and lasted about an hour or so.
- The center, in its turn, is usually calm and windless — so calm, in fact, that it’s almost creepy. It’s called the eye of the tornado or the hurricane, and it’s basically the safest place to be when the phenomenon comes to you.
- There are 5 categories of hurricanes according to the National Weather Service. Category 1 is just slightly more intense than a tropical storm, and in some countries it’s still considered as such.
- Category 2 is another story altogether. The wind blows at speeds of up to 109 mph, and that’s where the real trouble starts.
- When a hurricane grows to Category 3, it’s already a disaster. First of all, it’s big. Secondly, it’s powerful. The winds are reaching 129 mph, and catching such a gust is like being hit with a race car.
- A Category 4 major hurricane is something you don’t want to see with your own eyes. With gusts of wind up to 157 mph, it can tear trees from the ground and hurl fairly large objects in the air, causing lots of damage.
- And finally, a Category 5 major hurricane is a thing to be avoided at all costs. In other classifications it’s even called a super typhoon or a super cyclonic storm, which says a lot.

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TIMESTAMPS:
Why a tropical cyclone is dangerous 0:40
A tropical depression 1:47
A tropical storm 2:29
Hurricane or typhoon? 2:50
But what about tornadoes? 3:50
The safest place of a tornado 5:12
How powerful a hurricane could be:
- Category 1 6:35
- Category 2 7:02
- Category 3 7:24
- Category 4 7:53
- Category 5 8:26

[iFiidy]

I was in Guam during typhoon pongsona. The eye passed over the island. It felt pretty weird because it became so calm for a while, just to get rocked again. It was definitely an experience. It was a condition 1 typhoon. That's when I learned typhoons are categorized as conditions given 1 as the strongest and 4 as the calmest

[mr.smiley]

Actually, the largest tornado ever recorded happened on May 31st, 2013 in El Reno, Oklahoma. It reached 2.6 miles in width and had a wind speed at peak width of 295mph-302mph but was rated an EF-3 due to the location of touchdown. It was also nicknamed "The Angry Octopus" because of its subvortices rotating around inside the tornado. It also killed 13 storm chasers and one was very famous on Storm Chasers, Tim Samaras. His son and his partner were also killed by the tornado.

[shaibodas]

I am here after the super cyclone "Amphan" which happened in my city Kolkata in India yesterday.

Left us devastated. 😢

[madypalmer]

The largest tornado ever recorded was the El Reno tornado on 5/30/2013 which was 2.6 miles wide

[ironempath]

Following Hurricane Ian's effects yesterday in Florida, I came to check out the difference between hurricanes and tornados. This is by far the best such instructional video on YouTube.
Thank you for it.

[karenshaub]

One interesting thing I learned from 55 years living in Florida is that the most dangerous part of the storm can be the upper right quadrant which is the part that tends to toss off tornados and cause a lot of damage. Tornados have always scared me more than
being on the "good side" of a hurricane or in the eye

Water Spouts are fun too. I lived on the beach one summer and on a single day I watched as 6 water spouts formed almost simultaneously and headed for the beach. They always seem to dissipate before they touch land


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[JahReti]

I've been in the eye of a tornado. It's like a giant circle- like a ring. It's beautiful.. the sky was clear (in the center), I could see the stars and the Moon. It was lighting moving horizontal along the edges of the ring. It was no wind at all. It's really calm while you could see the wind destroying everything on the outside of it. Craziest thing I've ever looked at. It was beautiful and scary at the same time.

[binibinihazel]

I experienced the eye of typhoon Ursula on Dec. 25, 2019. Calmness stayed for I think 10 to 30 mins. (Not sure) but when eye wall hit us, it is much stronger than before. Keep safe guys!

[_sohamvaidya]

Watching this while my city just got affected by cyclone tauktae, it is first cyclone which badly affects the 7 states in India, it was so devastated...

[kyatishetty]

When u r seeing this when ur city is having its first cyclone after years

[jedi]

Me: My phone is broken

Mom: How?

Me: I smashed the like button

[scooba]

stage 5 hurricane: im strong

f5 tornado: hold my wind

[ashtmisfunlearning]

I love your all videos and watch them. Its intresting.

[itshologram]

@BRIGHT SIDE The largest tornado was 2.6 miles wide, And the longest a tornado on the ground was about TWO hours.

[aryannmoniquelago]

Who just came here for the assignment in your school, or the bois who came here to learn. 😄

[brandonking]

I live in the very cold Newfoundland, Canada and a hurricane found it’s way up to us yesterday, so sometimes there’s a need to worry !

[ChocoMelodii]

wow. my teacher just showed us this video to our class a while ago lol
(our lesson was all about weather-)