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.
Lightning can strike up to 16 Km (10 miles) from a thunderstorm so if im not mistaking since you can hear thunder another 10 miles from lightning, then im guessing you can hear thunder if a storm was around 20 miles away.