In a recent milestone confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a truly gargantuan lightning flash has ...

The powerful lightning bolt, also known as a megaflash, stretched 515 miles from eastern Texas to Kansas City, Mo. The ...

Though it struck over the U.S. years ago, experts have only recently determined that a lightning bolt that a lightning flash ...

The massive lightning flash spanned from Texas to near Kansas City, surpassing the previous record of 477 miles set in 2020.

The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash, which struck from ...

On a stormy pre-dawn morning in late 2017, a lightning bolt near Dallas unzipped the sky, racing northeast through the clouds ...

A lightning strike that stretched from Texas to Missouri in 2017 was recently certified as the longest single lightning flash in recorded history. The strike stretched a distance that would take ...

A lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being ...

The record-setting lightning megaflash occurred on October 22, 2017, stretching approximately 829 kilometers, or 515 miles, ...

A single bolt traveled from East Texas to Missouri in 2017—515 miles in total—and just earned a world record from the WMO.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) certified the length of the lightning flash, which happened in East Texas back in 2017.