Well the point is that Myanmar got hit by a tornado (I don't fucking care if it was land based or water based). And WKFF is right, a tornado started in the water is called a water spout in the states.

Why are you guys even arguing? You all are forgetting to mention Typhoons, which are the Hurricanes over there. You are all right and wrong. Cyclones by definition are anything that spins for the most part, but nobody refers to Tornadoes as Cyclones, hardly ever. Cyclones are only used over in the dead sea area where the one had just hit Myanmar. Cyclones, Typhoons and Hurricanes are all essentially the same things. They all form over water, all have destructive winds and all form and maintain shape in a swirling motion.


Basically, everyone just STFU.

No, it did not get hit by a tornado, it got hit by a cyclone.

I'm glad to see that Burma is actually allowing some U.S. aid efforts.

Open wide WKFF.
Much like a rectangle is a square, while a square is not a rectangle.

Again, you need to lay off the drugs. You do not make any sense.

Also, technically, Myanmar was most likely hit by things defined as "tornadoes." Hurricanes, typhoons, or what the hell ever you want to call it often times spawn many tornadoes. Also, by most accounts it was a "Cyclone" that hit Myanmar. That's what all the experts are calling it, and is a more south pacific/australian term for hurricanes, cyclones, typhoons, or what have you. There's at least three main terms for the same storm. "Typhoon" is more used in the West Pacific area by say, the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc. At least that's what people normally call it over there.

Remember playing Diablo 2 as a druid, and that skill Cyclone? You cast it and it spawns off little tornadoes along with the main structual storm.

When did a cyclone become the same thing as a hurricane? If you look online it says cyclones by definition are another term for tornadoes. Typhoons and hurricanes are two different types of hurricanes that occur in different parts of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone

Case closed! :D

Curse Wikipedia. I'm tempted to go and edit that info, not that it won't get changed back by some hairy hoochimama in the next second.

Who cares what it is. They said most of the damage and deaths were caused from the storm surge anyways. Then again, Hurricanes spawn just as many tornadoes as cyclones do, so IDK WTF the big deal is.