Tom Mitchell
EF1
While I cannot say I have experience with hearing this from a weather event, this sounds exactly like the vortices that occur with the passing of airliners. I often go to a beach which is directly under the approach path about 4000 ft from the runway threshold. Here is a video, not mine, but you can hear the crack of the vortices:
wingtip vortices sound
wingtip vortices sound