TABLE OF CONTENT
CONTENTS PAGE
Title Page – – – – – – – – i
Certification – – – – – – – ii
Dedication – – – – – – – – iii
Acknowledgements – – – – – – iv
Table of Contents – – – – – – – v
CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION – – – – – 1
- Definition of terms – – – – – – 3
CHAPTER TWO
- LITERATURE REVIEW – – – – 5
- Formation of Thunderstorm – – – – 5
- The Cumulus Stage – – – – – 6
- Mature Stage – – – – – – 6
- Dissipitating Stage – – – – – – 7
- Classification of Thunderstorm – – – – 9
- Single Cell – – – – – – – 9
- Multi – cell cluster – – – – – – 10
- Multi – cell lines – – – – – – 10
- Super – cell – – – – – – – 11
- Lightning – – – – – – – 12
- Types of Lightning – – – – – 12
- In – Cloud Lightning – – – – – 12
- Cloud – to – Ground Lightning – – – – 13
- Ground – to – Cloud Lightning – – – – 13
- Cloud – to – Cloud Lightning – – – – 13
- Ball Lightning – – – – – – 13
- Cloud – to – Air Lightning – – – – 13
- Day Lightning – – – – – – 14
- Heat Lightning – – – – – – 14
- Precipitation – – – – – – – 14
- How precipitation forms – – – – – 15
- Forms of precipitation – – – – – 16
- Rain and Drizzle – – – – – – 17
- Sleet and Glaze – – – – – – 17
- Hail – – – – – – – – 18
- Rime – – – – – – – – 19
- Snow – – – – – – – – 20
- How air become saturated – – – – 21
- The Water Cycle – – – – – – 22
- Formation of Thunderstorm – – – – 5
CHAPTER THREE
- EFFECTS OF THUNDERSTORM AND
PRECIPITATION – – – – – – 24
- Where thunderstorms occur – – – – 26
- Some measure taken to minimize the effect(s) and
occurrence of thunderstorm – – – – 28
- Measurement of Precipitation – – – – 30
CHAPTER FOUR
- SUMMARYAND CONCLUSION – – – 32
- Summary – – – – – – – 32
- Conclusion – – – – – – – 33
References
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this study is to describe thunderstorms as a climatological factor with specific reference to precipitations relationships increasing specific interest and knowledge of the physical characteristic of thunderstorms. Mogil (2007), have indicated the importance of thunderstorm rainfall within the hydrologic cycle. Thunderstorms have great significance in the continental climate or the Middle West principally because of their associated precipitation. Therefore, detailed knowledge of the distribution of thunderstorms and thunderstorm rainfall is essential in the understanding of the rainfall distribution and water resource.
The analysis in this study was accomplished using climatological data entered on IBM punch cards as this procedure permit rapid processing of voluminous data (Vidali, 1992; Deng, 2006).
Since thunderstorms are weather phenomena of relatively small area  extent and exist in one location for only a short period. This major analytical problems resulted. The first was obtaining a network of climatological station which would occur in thunderstorm occurrences. The second was determining from daily climate records the amounts of precipitation resulting from thumderstorms and being usually of only a few hours duration.
