The longest lightning strike was recorded in 2017 in the North American Great Plains, stretching from eastern Texas to near Kansas City. It happened during a major thunderstorm in October, the World ...

The Honkers saw another late lead slip away, as the La Crosse Loggers scored three in the seventh inning en route to a 7-6 win on Wednesday night in La Crosse. The Honkers are now 7-19 in the second ...

A single flash of lightning that stretched across the Great Plains, from eastern Texas all the way to Kansas City, Missouri, ...

NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite detects around one million lightning flashes per day from its perch high above the Earth. It is the ...

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

A megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...

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

The GOES satellites are a major part of the puzzle, since they continuously monitor the sky. They also identified the longest ...

The flash occurred in October 2017, but scientists didn't catch it until years later using new lightning-detection tools. An ASU scientist confirmed the record and said it demonstrates the power of ...

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

A lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the ...

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