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515-mile lightning flash caught from space
A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...
World’s longest lightning flash: This 'megaflash' spanned 829 kilometers; here’s what you need to know
A colossal 'megaflash' stretching 829 kilometers across the sky above the United States on October 22, 2017, has been ...
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World's longest lightning flash confirmed as new record
A 515-mile-long lightning strike that traveled from Texas to Missouri has been confirmed as the new world record.
New research shows Oklahoma saw the world's longest flash of lightning in historic storm
On a stormy pre-dawn morning in late 2017, a lightning bolt near Dallas unzipped the sky, racing northeast through the clouds ...
Florida is the lightning capital. Here's how to stay safe ahead of weekend storms
Lightning is one of the top storm-related killers in the United States, according to the National Lightning Safety Council. Here's how to stay safe.
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New World Record-Longest 'Megaflash' Lightning Confirmed. It Covered A Distance From East Texas To Near Kansas City
A megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...
Weather-tracking advances are revealing astonishing extremes of lightning
It was a single lightning flash that streaked across the Great Plains for 515 miles, from eastern Texas nearly all the way to ...