With all thunderstorms comes lightning. Of the various types of lightning, one that meteorologists monitor closely is cloud-to-ground lightning. Here’s how it works: as a thunderstorm moves through an ...

Rebekah Prevost was hit by a lightning strike while running from her vehicle to her home that afternoon. She did not make it ...

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

Lightning strikes the U.S. 25 million times a year. Lightning fatalities are more frequent in July. When thunder threatens ...

In actuality, lightning can strike many miles from the cloud from which it was discharged ... via radar during thunderstorms ...

On Wednesday at 7:24 p.m. a severe thunderstorm warning was released by the National Weather Service in effect until 8:15 p.m ...

Getting inside a sturdy structure or at least an automobile is the best move when thunder roars, but just not being in water or being the tallest object around is a good start.

On Wednesday at 4:50 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 5:45 p.m. for ...

Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

The start of July will be hot for Northern California, and the Sierra could expect another round of thunderstorms.

A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the National Weather Service on Tuesday at 4:20 p.m. in effect until 5 p.m. for ...

As Central Wyoming heats up into the 90s, scattered thunderstorms loom, bringing concerns about heavy rain and lightning ...