Lightning is a familiar sight in stormy skies, but a new report has revealed just how far some bolts can travel — in one case, more than 500 miles.

This is one for the record books — a single lightning bolt stretched more than 515 miles across the U.S., from Texas to Kansas City, shattering the previous world record by 38 miles. Known as a megaflash,

Well, it's official. The single megaflash lighting bolt of 2017 was certified as the world’s longest flash on record. The lighting occurred on October 22, 2017, and the horizontal distance stretched 515 miles from east Texas to near Kansas City, Missouri, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.