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 ...

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

A single lightning bolt silently crossed three states in 2017. Years later, satellites finally uncovered its record-breaking ...

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.

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 ...

"We call it megaflash lightning and we're just now figuring out the mechanics of how and why it occurs," says geographical scientist Randy Cerveny of Arizona State University and the World ...

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