Sound Library - Thunder

Desert lightning at Big Bend National Park in Texas.

NPS Photo by Jennette Jurado

• Thunder

  
  

  Audio recording of thunder, NPS Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division.

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  Audio Transcript

  Sounds of rain and loud rolling thunder.

Spectrogram of thunder. Spectrograms are graphs that visualize sounds. The brightness of the colors shows sounds’ amplitude (loudness) across different frequencies (pitches), shown from bottom to top, and over time, from left to right. This spectrogram shows the deep, loud rumble of thunder gradually trailing off over time.

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