Steve:
Thunder can't occur without lightning. Often we will see
lightning but not hear the thunder due to distance (that is, the light
reaches us from the lightning, but the sound of thunder is too faint due to
attenuation).
If your question is how can there be a lightning and thunder during
a snowstorm, that is quite common, actually, and is due to the snow falling
from a cumulonimbus cloud from which lightning and thunder are also being
generated.
I hope this helps and is not too basic an answer!
Doug
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