Dry thunder clap with no accompanying rain. Recorded with a roland edirol r-09hr and edited in adobe audition. If you use this sample, please tell me what you did with it below! links are nice too.
The sound of thunder in the distance. Recorded on a zoom h1. I was quite pleased to get thunder with no rain as, understandably, the two usually go together.
A few loud sounds in the beginning, one massive and loud lightning and thunder. You can even hear the lightning crack before the thunder. Distant thunder follows with some birds chirping at the end. Recorded on a h4n zoom at 48khz 24bit.