Cyclone, West Virginia
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|timezone = Eastern (EST)
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|postal_code = 24827
|area_code = 304 & 681
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Cyclone is an unincorporated community in Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States, along Huff Creek and West Virginia Route 10.{{cite book| title= West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer |year=1997 |publisher= DeLorme |location=Yarmouth, Me. |isbn= 0-89933-246-3 |page= 58}}
The community was named for the fact a tornado or cyclone struck the area in the 1880s.{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=225;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=197}}{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=34|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|page=30}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
Category:Unincorporated communities in Wyoming County, West Virginia
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