Whirly winds are like a really small tornado they go just about waist height and they have leaves in them and sometimes sand. They are not strong you can stand in side of them and you can not feel them.

A Cyclone is not like a tornado, a Cyclone has an eye and around the eye heaps of wind goes around the eye and they are huge. A Cyclone forms over the sea and when it comes over land it rains heavily and sometimes floods like Cyclone Yasi. The biggest Cyclone to hit Australia is called Cyclone Yasi. It hit in February it made lots of trees fall over. But only a few houses fell down.