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Are tornadoes and tornadoes just the difference in size?

Cyclone is a kind of rotating air vortex, which flies into the air with dust carried by the ground. This vortex is what we usually see, and it is a natural phenomenon caused by air flow. The main reason for the formation of cyclones is that when a place is very hot by the sun, the air here will expand and some air will be squeezed up. After reaching high altitude, the temperature will gradually decrease, start to flow around and finally sink to the ground. Tornado is a kind of vortex: the air rotates rapidly around the axis of tornado and is attracted by the extremely low air pressure in the center of tornado. In the thin layer of air tens of meters thick near the ground, the airflow is sucked into the bottom of the vortex from all directions. Then it becomes a vortex around the axis. The wind in a tornado is always cyclonic, and the air pressure in its center can be 10% lower than that around it.

A tornado is a strong wind vortex accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud column rotating at high speed. The wind speed near the tornado center can reach 100 m/s to 200 m/s, with a maximum of 300 m/s, which is several times larger than the maximum wind speed near the typhoon center. The central air pressure is very low, generally as low as 400 hectopascals and as low as 200 hectopascals. It has a great sucking effect, which can suck the sea (lake) water away from the sea (lake) surface, form a water column, and then connect with the clouds, commonly known as "dragon water absorption". Because the air inside the tornado is extremely thin, the temperature drops sharply and the water vapor condenses rapidly, which is an important reason for the formation of funnel cloud column. The average diameter of the funnel cloud column is only about 250 meters. Tornadoes are produced in very unstable cumulonimbus clouds. Its formation is related to the strong rise of warm and humid air, the southward movement of cold air and topography. Its life history is short, usually lasting ten minutes to an hour or two, but its destructive power is amazing. It can uproot trees, blow down buildings or roll some ground objects into the air. There are tornadoes in Jiangsu Province almost every year, but the location has no obvious regularity. It usually appears in June and July, sometimes in early or middle August.