Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single lighting bolt along a South Carolina beach struck nearly two dozen people on June 24, including 12 children, local ...

Wow, talk about a serious flash. A single lightning bolt that lasted seven seconds and stretched 515 miles across five U.S. states has set a new world record for the longest flash ever recorded.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Years later, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has officially confirmed the longest single lightning flash ever recorded, stemming from a powerful storm in June 2017.

“We call it megaflash lightning and we’re just now figuring out the mechanics of how and why it occurs,” study co-author and Arizona State University climatologist Randy Cerveny said in a statement.

A single lightning bolt stretched across the Great Plains for an astonishing 515 miles, from eastern Texas to near Kansas City, setting a new world record and pushing the boundaries of what scientists ...

That mega lightning strike, called a megaflash, started over Texas and stretched all the way to near Kansas City during a major thunderstorm in October 2017. The World Meteorological Organization says ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - A new record has been confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization for the world’s longest lightning bolt, breaking a previous record set by a bolt that flashed across ...

A single lighting bolt along a South Carolina beach struck nearly two dozen people on June 24, including 12 children, local officials confirmed. Twenty people were struck by the lightning bolt near ...