Usage of "lightning storm"

A storm caused by strong rising air currents and characterized by thunder and lightning and usually heavy rain or hail.

Usage of lightning storm in English

This must be a wonderful place in a thunder and lightning storm. 
 Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers; Or, The Secret of Phantom Mo... 

A big lightning storm came around 4 a.m. and hit the house. 
 Reuters 

However, the plane hit a terrifying lightning storm, and lost contact. 
 Radio NZ 

Eyewitnesses said the plane was forced down in a lightning storm. 
 The man who ate the 747 

And what good was being stuck up a tree in a lightning storm? 
 Heir of Fire 

Up ahead, there's a lightning storm of activity propagating down axons. 
 Wired 

What should you do in the middle of a lightning storm? 
 Radio NZ 

His skimmer... had to wait while the lightning storm died down. 
 The Hyperion Cantos 

Helplessly, he watched the lightning storm move further and further away. 
 Arrival (Stories of Your Life and Others) 

A lightning storm pulsed and flickered silently within the clouds off to the south. 
 Earth strike: star carrier: book one 

On the bad side, the wire has reminded me of the oncoming lightning storm. 
 Catching Fire 

There was a bluish spark like a small lightning storm, and a thunderous roar. 
 Act of will 

More like an old man's niece and a lightning storm. 
 Beautiful creatures 

A dazzling bolt of electricity strikes a towering tree and then a lightning storm begins. 
 Catching Fire 

Now he remembered where he had heard of "a lightning storm in space." 
 Star trek movie tie-in 

There was a lightning storm the day Lawson tried to retrieve her at the restaurant. 
 Shadowlight 

Meanings of lightning storm in English