Fortunately the thunderstorm kept off until we were safely indoors.
The Observatory issued only an amber rainstorm signal and a thunderstorm warning.
Tornado chasers there spent seven hours and 150 miles (240 kilometers) tracking the supercell thunderstorm that produced this cloud formation.
One was put in mind of a brilliant, slightly stifling summer day whose beauty is the harbinger of a distant thunderstorm.
In his now-famous experiment, he sent a kite with a metal key tied to the string up into a thunderstorm. When he saw sparks leap from the key, his hunch about lightning was confirmed.
The thunderstorm may settle the weather.
We were born 17 years ago during a thunderstorm.
Alice looked up, and there stood the Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a thunderstorm.
The study of electricity had hardly begun when Franklin, in 1752, conducted his dangerous kite experiment in a thunderstorm, founding the science of atmospheric electricity.
The thunderstorm terrified the child.
During the passage of a thunderstorm pressure has pronounced change.
The often cited example is that of a parent arousing at a baby's whimper but sleeping through a thunderstorm.
The night of our birth, a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church, setting the building afire until it was no more than a charred sliver of steeple and smoking pews.
An awesome thunderstorm struck the city yesterday.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.
They say we're in for a thunderstorm.
They can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm.
He was born during a thunderstorm.
Do the slightest disturbances - the sound of a toilet flushing, say, or the TV in the next room - rouse you from sleep, while your partner slumbers soundly through a thunderstorm?
The standard flight rule for all aircraft is to avoid any thunderstorm activity, and yet Frank shows no fear by staying on course.
Clouds gather before a thunderstorm.
Why do the roiling, black clouds of a thunderstorm produce lightning?
Stephen: Wow, you look like a drowned rat! Didn't you know there's a thunderstorm today?
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