In October 2017, lightning stretched across multiple Great Plains states, and a weather satellite captured the event ...

A single bolt traveled from East Texas to Missouri in 2017—515 miles in total—and just earned a world record from the WMO.

Lightning is one of the greatest natural forces on our planet. New mapping tools are revealing just how big it is.

The World Meteorological Organization says a lightning bolt that was visible for some 515 miles from eastern Texas through ...

A massive bolt of lightning that flashed across the sky from Texas to Missouri has captured a new world record. The 515-mile bolt stretched from East Texas to near Kansas City, Mo., a roughly ...

A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially the longest ever ...

A bolt of lightning that arced across the sky from Texas to Kansas in the fall of 2017 has officially smashed the record for ...

The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City — a distance that would take at least eight hours by ...

At one point, the team detected a downward-advancing lightning leader, a channel where the air was breaking down into charged particles. A leader forms just before a lightning bolt zips through ...