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It was one for the record books, a lightning flash that reached from eastern Texas to Kansas City. It happened back on Oct.
A lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being ...
A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from ...
In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...
Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case ...
Scientists have confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash in a thunderstorm complex, which hit the Great ...
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...
Unlike the classic forked bolts that crash to Earth in a matter of milliseconds, megaflashes slither horizontally through ...
Scientists have announced that a 2017 lightning bolt has set the record for the longest lightning flash in recorded history.
NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...
Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The ...
Image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite of the thunderstorm complex that produced the megaflash lightning bolt on October 22, ...