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If it takes 10 seconds for it to thunder after it lighting strikes how far is the storm?
Five seconds is one mile away.
Ten seconds is two miles away.
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If it take 10 seconds for its to thunder after a lighting strikes how far is the storm?
Five seconds is one mile away.Ten seconds is two miles away.
Lighting occurs when?
During a storm or Thunder Storm or is it the same?
When you count seconds between when you hear thunder and when you see lightning strike what does it tell you?
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.
What does it mean when lighting and thunder is close together?
When lightning and thunder occur close together, it indicates that the storm is near. The time difference between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder can be used to estimate the distance of the storm; for every five seconds between them, the storm is approximately one mile away. A shorter interval suggests that the storm is very close, which can be dangerous. This proximity means one should take shelter immediately to stay safe from potential lightning strikes.
What is a small storm accompanied by thunder and lighting and often by precipitation called?
A thunder storm. It has no special name.
If it takes 10 seconds for it to thunder after lightning strikes how far is the storm?
Approximately 2.5 miles. Every 4 second delay is the equivalent of one mile.
How does the sound of thunder reach you?
Energized air from the storm strikes your ears.
What is the actual method for finding the distance you are from the storm using lightning and thunder?
For a long time it was thought by many people that the number of seconds after the lightning strikes is the miles the center of the storm is from you. Although this does show how light travels faster than sound, this system is wrong. The actual method for finding the distance the heart of the storm is from you is by counting after you see lightning; and stop counting after you hear the thunder. Now, for every five seconds after the lightning struck until you hear the thunder, it is one mile away. So if ten seconds go by between lightning and thunder, the center of the storm is two miles away.
How can you survive in a thunder storm?
Go outside and wave at the lighting, jump in water, and touch metal. Please do this to survive a thunder storm. You might be in the news next Saturday.
What will be the first between thunder or storm?
thunder is the sound reaction caused by lightning strikes inside or coming out of cloud banks so you don't necessarily have a big storm first, but you must have storm clouds at least.
Has anyone died In a thunder and lighting storm?
According to NOAA, an average 40-50 people in the United States are killed by lightning each year. Lightning strikes are secondly only to flooding when it comes to deadly weather.
Can you calculate storm distance between thunder claps?
If you count the number of seconds from when you see the flash of lightening to when you hear the thunder, you will have a rough estimate as how far the storm is.
