Well...they are usually accompanied by strong winds, and often produce heavy rain and sometimes snow, sleet, or hail, but some thunderstorms produce little precipitation or no precipitation at all. Thunderstorms may line up in a series or become a rainband, known as a squall line.
Plants too are the living organisms of the ecosystem. They too respond to the external environmental stimuli.
Phototropism is the best example for it. All of us know that for plants to grow light is necessary . Hence all plants respond to the changes in the environment , and respond to it by growing their stems, roots, or leaves toward the direction of stimulus or away from the stimulus.