Extracted from my own weather records.
Thurs 7th Aug ‘08
LAST NIGHT: A moderate thunderstorm at around midnight with short bursts of heavy rain and occasional lightning. Once it moved on at 1.30 am, the rest of the night remained cloudy.
THIS MORNING: Cloudy, where the stratus became low enough to cover high ground as hill fog. Occasional outbreaks of rain.
THIS AFTERNOON: It brightened up after mid-day and while there was some convective stuff about at first, that too melted away to lead to a sunny late afternoon and evening. Some cumulonimbus was observed over the french coast but they kept well out of harm's way.
CURRENT (at 7 pm): Fine and clear. 18.9 C. Humidity: 79%. Dewpoint: 15.9 C. 1004.4 mb.
REST OF UK:
Showers and thunderstorms across the south-east of England gradually
cleared away during the early hours but locally heavy rain continued to linger from Aberdeenshire south-westward across Perth and Kinross and across Glasgow and Ayrshire. There were reports of flooding problems at Edinburgh train station and many trains running through here being cancelled or suffering delays. There was also a problem with a dam in Ayrshire that had been damaged and the reservoir was being pumped. The rain across Scotland gradually eased off through the day. A good deal of thundery showers broke out across East Anglia
and Lincolnshire areas in particular. A funnel cloud was reported around the Leeming area and a tornado around Abergaveny in south Wales at 1500. There were scattered showers across many parts of England and Wales, some locally heavy. Northern Scotland stayed mostly dry whilst eastern parts of Northern Ireland saw outbreaks of rain. The showers across western parts tended to ease during the evening, but some very heavy and thundery downpours broke out across Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Some heavy showers also broke out
in the West Midlands.
I think it wasn't that a notable storm around here going by the way I have typed it up . . . but, hey, a storm is a storm.
The following summer of 2009 was more memorable, that appeared to be much more active in terms of thundery activity.