What types of energy are there in a thunderstorm?

Answer 1

In a thunderstorm there is:

• kinetic energy in every atom and molecule
• sound energy
• chemical energy in the water
• thermal energy in every atom and molecule
• electrical energy in the lightning and clouds

Answer 2

In the 20th century a consensus determined that thunder must begin with a shock wave in the air due to the sudden thermal expansion of the plasma in the lightning channel. The temperature inside the lightning channel, measured by spectral analysis, varies during its 50 μs existence, rising sharply from an initial temperature of about 20,000 K to about 30,000 K, then dropping away gradually to about 10,000 K. The average is about 20,400 K (20,100 °C; 36,300 °F). This heating causes it to expand outward, plowing into the surrounding cooler air at a speed faster than sound would travel in that cooler air. The outward-moving pulse that results is a shock wave, similar in principle to the shock wave formed by an explosion, or at the front of a supersonic aircraft. More recently, the consensus around the cause of the shock wave has been eroded by the observation that measured over-pressures in simulated lightning are greater than what could be achieved by the amount of heating found. Alternative proposals rely on electrodynamic effects of the massive current acting on the plasma in the bolt of lightning.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It's a kind of mechanical energy.

Answer 5

the answer is sound energy

Answer 6

Chemical energy

Answer 7

Are you sure because i was told it was sound energy.Can it be both?