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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.
A 515-mile-long lightning strike that traveled from Texas to Missouri has been confirmed as the new world record.
Image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite of the thunderstorm complex that produced the megaflash lightning bolt on October 22, ...
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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 ...
A lightning flash that is longer than 60 miles is considered a megaflash. Researchers first discovered them using new ...
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