That mega lightning strike, called a megaflash, started over Texas and stretched all the way to near Kansas City during a major thunderstorm in October 2017. The World Meteorological Organization says ...

A reappraisal of satellite data from 2017 revealed that a thunderstorm over the Great Plains produced a 515-mile lightning flash, the longest ever recorded. As science advances, researchers expect to ...

A megaflash lightning has set the record for being the longest lightning ever recorded in the world. The megaflash traveled over 500 miles, roughly the distance from Washington D.C. to Detroit. The ...

CW39 chief meteorologist Idolina Peralez talks about a recent megaflash, which is a single lightning flash that traveled 515 ...

A nationwide lightning report shows Texas ranked No. 1 in total flashes and thunderstorm hours last year. Here's where ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...

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 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 ...