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Lightning strike and subsequent eletrocution, fires started due to lightning strike, then all dangers that can follow from a fire. Trees, masts, part of buildings falling as a result of lightning strike. Strong winds can damage buildings and topple trees. Heavy rains can cause flooding, with all those associated dangers.
Since light travels faster than sound, you can tell how many miles away a thunder storm is by counting. Lightning strikes. 5 seconds pass and you heard thunder. The thunder storm is 5 miles away.
cumulonimbus storm.
A transient, sometimes violent storm of thunder and lightning, often accompanied by rain and sometimes hail.
Thunder is the sound caused by lightning, there is always thunder with lightning. If you cannot hear thunder maybe that is because you are too far away from the storm.
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Thunderstorm
A thunderstorm?
A thunderstorm?
A thunderstorm?
A thunderstorm?
A thunderstorm?
A thunder storm is one in which a large amount of thunder is heard. Thunder is caused by lightning; it would be more correct to say that a thunderstorm only occurs with lightning strikes.
Lightning can strike up to 30 miles from the parent storm cell, though such cases are rare.
A super-cell cloud
Lightning strike and subsequent eletrocution, fires started due to lightning strike, then all dangers that can follow from a fire. Trees, masts, part of buildings falling as a result of lightning strike. Strong winds can damage buildings and topple trees. Heavy rains can cause flooding, with all those associated dangers.
Since light travels faster than sound, you can tell how many miles away a thunder storm is by counting. Lightning strikes. 5 seconds pass and you heard thunder. The thunder storm is 5 miles away.