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A massive lightning ‘megaflash’ set a world record — it stretched for a whopping 515 miles
A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, turned out to be a staggering 515 miles long. A new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society documented the new lightning record, which beat the previous title holder, a 477-mile bolt from April 2020.
In October 2017, a thunderstorm in the United States produced lightning that extended across several states. Now, researchers ...
A lightning flash that is longer than 60 miles is considered a megaflash. Researchers first discovered them using new ...
A jaw-dropping 515-mile lightning bolt lit up the skies from Texas to Kansas City, smashing previous records and reshaping ...
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The Longest Lightning Flash Ever Recorded Stretched 829 Kilometers From Texas to Missouri
Unlike the classic forked bolts that crash to Earth in a matter of milliseconds, megaflashes slither horizontally through ...
A 515-mile-long lightning strike that traveled from Texas to Missouri has been confirmed as the new world record.
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