A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, setting a new world record and pushing the boundaries of what scientists ...

Shocking! Sparked by a major thunderstorm complex rumbling over the Great Plains, a single megaflash lightning bolt captured by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite was recently certified by the World ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Years later, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially confirmed the longest single lightning flash ever recorded, stemming from a powerful storm in June 2017.

A 515-mile lightning flash is the longest ever recorded. The flash covered skies from Texas to Missouri in 2017. In 2020, another historical lightning flash was captured over Uruguay and Argentina. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A thunderstorm with cloud to ground lightning rages during the day in China on July 21, 2025. Thunderstorm safety often comes down ...

There is a new king of lightning: A record-setting strike that lasted more than seven seconds and stretched 515 miles, from eastern Texas almost to Kansas City, Mo. The massive size of the megaflash, ...