Synonyms for thunderstorm
ˈθʌn dərˌstɔrmthun·der·storm

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1. thunderstorm, electrical storm, electric stormnoun

   a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

   Synonyms:
   electrical storm, electric storm

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1. supercell

   a rotating storm

   a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding (often used attributively)

   Submitted by rinat on June 5, 2017  

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1. List of paraphrases for "thunderstorm":

   thunderstorms, storm, thundershower, thunder, storms, rainstorm

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1. James Taylor:

   The tornado risk has now subsided but there is a very good chance of more thunderstorm activity for the rest of today, it is not out of the question there could be very localised tornadic activity but that will be something we will monitoring very closely for the rest of the day.

2. Timothy Beal:

   I had one student who was reading Revelation outside on the waterfront and she fell asleep and woke up in the middle of a thunderstorm. She had an absolute panic attack because she felt like she was in the book.

3. James Thurber:

   I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

4. Warning Meteorologist Eddie Walker:

   The trigger for these periods of thunderstorm activity will be a bit more robust, allowing for stronger lines of thunderstorms to develop and march east quickly into the evening and overnight hours each day.

5. Robert Louis Stevenson:

   Quite minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.