= lightning, thunderstorm → 26C8 ⛈ thunder cloud and rain
The cloud with lightning emoji is the digital forecast for chaos: a puffy gray cloud dropping a bold yellow zigzag bolt like it just rage-quit the sky. People use it for literal thunderstorms, but also for “uh-oh, drama’s brewing,” shock-reaction takes, and that electric mood when you’re powered up. It’s perfect for warning the group chat that the tea is about to spill, or captioning a gym PR with “storm energy.” Sarcastically, it’s great for overhyping minor inconveniences—spilled coffee? Boom, nature’s fury.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a soft, rounded gray cloud with subtle shading and a single bright, saturated yellow bolt angled slightly forward, no raindrops, no face, and a clean, head-on perspective. The contrast makes the bolt pop like a neon sign under a storm shelf, instantly recognizable even at thumb-sized scale. Think Thor making an entrance, Zeus throwing shade, or Pikachu casting Thunderbolt—also big “Thunderstruck” playlist energy and EDM bass-drop hints. It can even read flirty in a cheeky way: “chemistry is electric,” but mainly it screams drama alert, power surge, or mood: stormy.
You’ll see it in weather tweets, hot-take threads, and meme captions when something “strikes” unexpectedly. Pair it with a tea emoji for brewing scandal, or with a cloud and rain for full tempest vibes; use the standalone high-voltage sign when you mean pure electricity, but this one signals sky-level theatrics and plot twists.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 813 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :cloud_lightning: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Weather Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 Code |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🌩 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🌩 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🌩 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🌩 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f329 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F329 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127785 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xA9 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8C A9 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 214 251 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF29 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf29 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57129 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F329 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F329 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127785 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F329" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8c\xa9" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF29" |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🌩️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🌩️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🌩 ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🌩 ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f329, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F329, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127785, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0xA9, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 8C A9, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 214 251, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDF29, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cdf29, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 57129, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F329 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F329, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127785, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F329\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x8c\xa9\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDF29\uFE0F" |
