⛈️ is the cloud with lightning and rain — the thunderstorm emoji — and 🌩️ the cloud with lightning alone. They mean storms: weather warnings, dramatic skies, storm-watching from the sofa, and turmoil — a stormy mood, a stormy relationship, “the calm before the storm”. Both were added in Emoji 1.0 (2015) with variation selectors. The bolt itself is ⚡ high voltage, the rain 🌧️ cloud with rain, and the spinning storms 🌪️ tornado and 🌀 cyclone.
Unicode name: cloud with lightning and rain · U+26C8 U+FE0F · Emoji 0.7 (original set) · group: Travel & Places.
IN A MESSAGEproper thunderstorm rolling in ⛈️ lights off, curtains open
How people use it
Thunderstorms: weather, storm watching
Turmoil: stormy moods and relationships
Drama: a brewing argument
Power cuts: with 🔋 🕯️
Compare the options
Emoji
Name
Notes
cloud with lightning and rainU+26C8 U+FE0F
Thunderstorm
cloud with lightningU+1F329 U+FE0F
Dry lightning
high voltageU+26A1
The bolt
cloud with rainU+1F327 U+FE0F
Rain
tornadoU+1F32A U+FE0F
Tornado
Questions people ask
Which emoji is a thunderstorm?
⛈️ cloud with lightning and rain. 🌩️ is lightning without rain.
What does ⛈️ mean from a guy?
The weather, or that things are stormy — a mood or an argument.
Is there a thunder emoji?
No sound emoji; ⛈️ 🌩️ and ⚡ cover thunder and lightning.
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