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.
will git thunder storm
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.
To tell how far away a storm is note the seconds between the appearance of lightning and the sound of thunder. Every second between lightning and thunder represents one mile.
There is a delay between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder because the speed of light (lightning) is much faster than the speed of sound (thunder). Thus, you SEE lightning first, and then you HEAR thunder later.
Because light travels faster than sound
A storm with lots of lightning but no thunder can be described as a silent or quiet storm.
If there are many seconds between the flash of lightning and the roar of thunder, it indicates that the storm is far away. Each second of delay between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder represents a distance of about 1 mile between you and the lightning strike.
Yes, a storm will eventually lose energy and dissipate.
A thunder storm. It has no special name.
cumulonimbus storm.
No.
thunder storm season starts on november 23rd, at midnight, just when the narwhale bacons