ment of a direction that all further proceedings shall be stayed, (t. e., that the process may stand,) and it is one of the ways by which a suit may be terminated by an act of the party, as distinguished from a termination of it by judgment, which is the act of the court.
The resulting number will tell you how many miles away you are from where lightning just struck. Five seconds, for example, indicates the lightning struck 1 mile away, and a 10-second gap means the lightning was 2 miles away.
If you hear thunder 36 seconds after you see a flash of lightning how far away is the thunderstorm? About 12 kilometers (7.45 miles). After you see a bolt of  lightning, for every 3 seconds until you hear the thunder, it means  it is one kilometer away (3 seconds = 1 kilomâ¦eter). This is because  the sound wave created by the lightning is traveling at about 330  m/sec (in dry air, the speed of sound is about 343 m/sec or 1127  ft/sec).    You can also divide by 5 to determine the approximate number of  miles. In this case it would be calculated as about 7.2  miles away.