“There were some clouds and it was thundering a little, but there wasn’t any kind of lightning storm,”
ummm... where theres thunder, theres lightning.
Very very frightening!
I went through that neighborhood a half-hour later, on light-rail, on the way to a ballgame, and it was raining and sunshine at the same time.
At that time of day it’s easy not to perceive the clouds directly overhead, due to the angle of the sun.