If driving , stay in your automobile. An enclosed automobile offers reasonably good protection from lightning. Outdoors , stay away from isolated trees. If your hair stands on end or your skin tingles, lightning may be about to stake. Crouch down quickly and make a low target.
Thunderstorms also can produce strong wind gusts.
These straight-line winds have been known to reach 100 miles an hour. For this reason, you should treat severe thunderstorms just as you would tornadoes. Move to appropriate shelter if in the path of the storm. The strong outrush of wind from a thunderstorm is often called a downburst. One of the primary causes is rain cooled air.