The longest lightning flash in the world covered more than 500 miles of ground, scientists have found. The “megaflash” ...

A lightning​ flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 is recognized as being the longest horizontal distance.

Lightning is one of nature’s most spectacular and terrifying phenomena. The bright flashes and booming thunder have caught ...

There’s a new world record for the longest lightning strike in history, and a Georgia Tech researcher helped uncover it.

The St. George Fire Department responded to a house fire on Grand Lakes Drive on Wednesday, which was caused by a lightning ...

The record-setting lightning megaflash occurred on October 22, 2017, stretching approximately 829 kilometers, or 515 miles, from Eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, within a storm system over ...

“Colorado is one lightning strike and one unattended campfire away from our next wildfire." ...

A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...

EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Investigators say a lightning strike caused a house fire that left three people displaced. The fire happened in the 700 block of Grand Lakes Drive on Wednesday ...

A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...

Scientists have now observed the largest megaflash lightning strike ever documented across 515 miles of the Great Plains.