I think you're on the right track here, but you need to either chose between a stylised image so make the ground and the clouds more stylised to match the strike or revisit the lightning and make it branch out more and perhaps in he animation see it move (grow) as it strikes and dissipates.
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I think you're on the right track here, but you need to either chose between a stylised image so make the ground and the clouds more stylised to match the strike or revisit the lightning and make it branch out more and perhaps in he animation see it move (grow) as it strikes and dissipates.