lightning and thunder and heavy rain storms

during the month of july, there was a nasty lightning and thunder storm, which came with heavy down pours of rain showers, the lightning and the thunder were the worst parts of that storm.
becasuse the lightning part of it, would not let up, it just kept getting louder.
that lightning and thunder storm lasted all night into the early morning , right into the early afternoon, by then it finally let up and stopped.