Rope tornadoes are usually short lived lasting around 1 minute. These tornadoes tend to also be the weakest, only causing minor damage. These tornadoes also can form during the beginning or end of a tornadoes life.
Cone tornadoes are the most common types of tornado. These are also the typical tornadoes you think of first. These tornadoes tend to be strong causing serious damage.
Wedge tornadoes tend to be the strongest tornadoes. These tornadoes can also have a long lifespan. These type of tornadoes can be very intimidating, one example of a wedge tornado is the El Reno tornado.
These tornadoes can be very rare, these tornadoes form as straight tubes. These tornadoes tend to be EF2, EF3, or EF4. However the shape of the tornado does not tell the EF rating.
Dust devils are not produced by storms, but produced by hot temperatures, dust, and low pressure. These are usually very weak, but may be unsafe to be inside, hurling small pebbles, and obviously dust.
Waterspouts are tornadoes that form over large body of water, such as lakes, or oceans. These tornadoes tend to be one of the rarest tornadoes known.
These tornadoes have subvortices around a main funnel, or just smaller funnels rotating around on spot on the ground. They are like toddlers running around the parent.
Fire whirls are non supercell tornadoes. However they can be interesting. These tornadoes from when a large fire, meets an updraft bringing the fire higher. Then, a little bit of rotation forms a fire whirl. No, a real tornado cannot merge with a huge fire to make one.