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Astonishing ‘Megaflash’ Sets World Record for Longest Lightning Strike
A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from eastern Texas to Kansas City. That “megaflash” shattered the previous record for longest lightning flash of 477 miles (768 kilometers), set in 2023.
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.
The Weather Channel on MSN3d
New World Record-Longest 'Megaflash' Lightning Confirmed. It Covered A Distance From East Texas To Near Kansas CityA megaflash is a lightning discharge of very long distance and/or duration that satellites can detect. A reanalysis of a ...
ZME Science on MSN1h
The Longest Lightning Flash Ever Recorded Stretched 829 Kilometers From Texas to MissouriUnlike the classic forked bolts that crash to Earth in a matter of milliseconds, megaflashes slither horizontally through ...
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