Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...

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

It was one for the record books, a lightning flash that reached from eastern Texas to Kansas City. It happened back on Oct.

Scientists have confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash in a thunderstorm complex, which hit the Great Plains 8 years ago this fall. The so-called megaflash lightning extended a ...

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ...

Using archival satellite data, researchers just officially confirmed the length of this enormous bolt of lightning that ...

The World Meteorological Organization reported that a megaflash has set a new world record for lightning discharge distance.

A 2017 lightning megaflash spanning 515 miles was confirmed as the longest ever, thanks to new satellite tech that helps ...

Environment A massive lightning ‘megaflash’ set a world record — it stretched for a whopping 515 miles By Brooke Steinberg Published July 31, 2025, 3:32 p.m. ET ...

Where there’s lightning, a crash of thunder isn’t far behind. If a storm has passed and the sun has returned, it can make ...

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

A lightning record — for now The 2017 megaflash may be the longest ever verified, now beating out a bolt of 477 miles in April 2020, but scientists don’t expect it to hold that title for long.