Scientists have just confirmed an October 2017 ‘megaflash’ set a new world record for the longest lightning streak ever recorded. It streaked across eastern Texas and the Great Plains, touching down ...

A lightning flash that extended 515 miles from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, in 2017 was recognized Thursday as a new world record. The flash — dubbed a "megaflash," or a single ...

DALLAS — A lightning strike from East Texas back in October 2017 has been certified as the longest single lightning flash in recorded history. But what are these massive megaflashes that can span ...

A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special. Now, researchers have confirmed that a lightning strike from 2017 has broken a world record. A single flash of lightning that ...

Scientists have confirmed a new world record for the longest lightning flash in a thunderstorm complex, which hit the Great Plains 8 years ago this fall. The so-called megaflash lightning extended a ...

An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...