How is the sound of Thunder produce ?
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Lightning causes thunder because a strike of lightning is incredibly hot. A typical bolt of lightning can immediately heat the air to between 15,000 to 60,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That's hotter than the surface of the sun!  \nA lightning strike can heat the air in a fraction of a second. When air is heated that quickly, it expands violently and then contracts, like an explosion that happens in the blink of an eye. It's that explosion of air that creates sound waves, which we hear and call thunder.  \n\nWhen lightning strikes very close by, we hear the thunder as a loud and short bang. We hear thunder from far away as a long, low rumble.  \n\nLightning always produces thunder. When you see lightning but don't hear any thunder, the lightning is too far away from you for the sound waves to reach you.  \n\nLight and sound will always move at different speeds. And lightning will always produce thunder because of a strike's high temperature. So no matter what, you will always see a flash of lightning before you hear thunder.
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From a distance, lightning will come before the thunder.  But at the point of the bolt, they occur at the same time.\n\nFrom the source below:\n"Actually, they do occur at the same time. The time difference that you sense is due to the way sound and light travel. Light travels extremely fast (300,000,000 m/s). In fact, it is faster than anything else. Sound travels at a measly 343 m/s through air. Therefore we can see light in an instant, but it takes a while to hear thunder."
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Thunderstorms form when significant condensation, resulting in the production of a wide range of water droplets and ice crystals, occurs in an atmosphere that is unstable and supports deep, rapid upward motion. This often occurs in the presence of three conditions: sufficient moisture accumulated in the lower atmosphere, reflected by high dewpoint temperatures; a significant fall in air temperature with increasing height, known as a steep lapse rate; and a force such as mechanical convergence along a cold front that will focus the lift.
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Thunder occurs immediately but because sound travels at about 1000 feet/sec and light travels at 186,300 miles per sec, we see  the lightning first and then wait to hear the thunder. \n\nThe difference in time between an observer seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder is based on that difference and the distance from the source of the lightning. \n\nFor example, if we see the lightning and then one second later we hear the thunder, the lighting occured at about 1000 feet away from our location.  Five seconds would be approx. one mile away.  The farther away it is, the greater the time difference will be.  \n\nThunder is caused by the super-heating of the air molecules that are conducting the electrical energy.  As Electricity flows, it heats up the air causing it to superheat locally.  This heating causes a sonic boom to occur.
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The burst of flame rapidly heats the air, which causes it to expand.  This expansion creates a pressure wave traveling through the air, which basically is all sound is.
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maybe someone got shot right outside your window while it was raining.. perfect cover\n\nNo, really the different sounds are created by different frequencies and wavelentghs of the vibrations caused by the electricity splitting the air. This can vary from the sonic boom you hear when a F15 crosses Mach 1 .. to the crack noise you hear with a whip. As for the loudness, it is a function of intensity and proximity.. so yea the same lightning will be louder when its closer.. but it could also be a very strong lightning far away.. the way you could tell would be the difference in light and sound... \n\ni hope this helps
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When source of sound is far away, the sound energy is dissipated while reaching us. That is its amplitude decreases. When it is nearer sound energy falling in our ear is large (amplitude is large) and hence volume of sound heard is high.\n\nThe above phenomenon is when the source of sound is stationary. But when the source is moving toward or away from us, other than the above the pitch (frequency) of sound varies.\n\nThis is because we determine the pitch of sound by the number of waves falling in our ear and not by the actual number of waves emitted by the source.\n\n Suppose that the siren is sending a pulse of sound every second and is moving away from us.  It takes some time for the first pulse to reach us when the siren is some distant away from us. The second pulse has to travel some more distance to reach us than the first pulse, because the source has moved some distance during this time.\n\nThus the number of waves falling in our ear drum has decrease and hence the pitch is also decreased.
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Thunder is the explosive sound produced by an ordinary lightning discharge. The lightning bolt heats the air around it so quickly (within a few millionths of a second) and to such a high temperature (about 10,000° C, or about 18,000° F) that the air molecules are pushed apart with great force, much like in an explosion. A wave of compressed air (a sound wave) moves out from the lightning bolt.
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clouds some times get charged to positive or negetive. the opposite charge is develped on the earth over which the cloud stands. if the cloud is close enough and the charge is good enough especially when water content in the air is high there will be an electric discharge fron the cloud to the earth. this is lightning and the noise of the discharge is thunder
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In the standard atmosphere:\n\nON average the speed of sound is approximately 1100 ft per second....... so for every five seconds of delay from the flash of the lightning to the beginning of the thunder makes it (about) one mile away..
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Boy, I've not seen this question for a long time, but it is a good one.  Here are the steps in creating sound:\n\n1.  All sound, ALL sound, it doesn't matter the type (chopping wood, crying baby, honking bus horn, waterfall, football being kicked) is produced in Austin, Texas.  There is an enormous facility there called "Sound Activators International" that utilizes state of the art technology to create all of the sounds needed on the earth.\nYears ago these sounds were all created by hand but now with computer-aided sound detonation technology it is no longer necessary to use real people or animals for each and every sound.\n\n2.  Once these sounds are created by a team of over 24,000 men and women (many of whom work here illegally from South East Asia) these sounds are packaged and shipped out to local distributions centers known as "Sound Beta Centers."  Each community of over 10,000 residents has one of these centers and they are easily recognized by the large gray and red roofs they have (for obvious reasons.)  \n\n3.  From the Sound Beta Centers the various sounds are available for purchase or rent--few people purchase the sounds after the 1998 ruling that people could no longer write off such purchases for taxes.  These sounds are then used throughout the community as the need arises.\n\n\n\nThere you go--THAT is where and how sounds are made.
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LOL!  It does indeed!  It's surrounded by air.  Sound waves travel through air.
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Your question lacks specification so that the answers may clearly give you results according to your expectations. any object can make sound for sound is a wave of energy which is released due to a collision of some sort. sound can be created by speakers which uses a permanent magnet with a coil of wire inside of it which has a electrical current flowing through it which in turn vibrates the speaker to make a electromagnetic wave which we interpret as sound.
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Wind means flow of air mass from one place to another place. That makes no sound waves. But when it strikes our ear it is obstructed and pressure varries.\n\nBut if during its flow if the pressure of air varies; the variation is sound wave. If the frequency of sound wave is in the audible range we hear  the sound. \n\nObstacles like buildings trees etc. make the pressure variations; and sound is heard. \n\nIn a room, if the fan is made to rotate very slowly, gentle flow of air can be felt with no sound.
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Lightning is a powerful natural electrostatic discharge produced during a thunderstorm. This abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The electric current passing through the discharge channels rapidly heats and expands the air into plasma, producing acoustic shock waves (thunder) in the atmosphere.\n\n\nThe saying "lightning never strikes twice in the same place" is false. The Empire State Building is struck by lightning on average 100 times each year, and was once struck 15 times in 15 minutes.\n\n\nk.m.
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Sound travels through the air at about 330 meters/second.  Kids have been taught for years in Scouts that it takes 5 seconds for a the sound of a lightning-generated thunderclap to travel a mile.  It doesn't take very sophisticated electronics to generate a sound pulse, simultaneously start a clock, and measure the time it takes for the sound to bounce off its target and return.  Real estate agents for years have used a small device that does this to measure room sizes.  Limiting factors are the distance to be measured and the amount of sound reflected.
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only in space where there is no air\n\nof  course there no clouds either but electrical spark can still be produced artificially\n\nedit: "a mile away for every second counted: -- make this about 4-5 seconds; the sound speed is about 300m/s