Outside the rain had continued to torrent, the urgent rattling of the shutters interspersed by drumrolls of thunder and forked lightning. BNC
The overwhelming blackness, the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning; I've never since been in an alpine storm of such ferocity. BNC
He liked the forked lightning better than the zig-zag kind and now he was gratified by a second many-branched display that seemed to spring and grow from the river itself, blossoming in the sky above the Kingsbrook meadows. BNC