The difference between Tornado and Typhoon
When used as nouns, tornado means a characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped , whereas typhoon means a weather phenomenon in the northwestern pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118km/h) or above. equivalent to a cyclone in the indian ocean and indonesia/australia.
Typhoon is also verb with the meaning: to swirl like a hurricane.
check bellow for the other definitions of Tornado and Typhoon
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Tornado as a noun (meteorology):
A characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped .
Examples:
"A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour."
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Typhoon as a noun:
A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane, which results in wind speeds of 64 knots (118km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia/Australia.
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Typhoon as a verb (intransitive):
To swirl like a hurricane.