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Longest lightning flash: 50x length of average bolt sets world record, travels 515 miles
A megaflash lightning has set the record for being the longest lightning ever recorded in the world. The megaflash traveled over 500 miles, roughly the distance from Washington D.C. to Detroit. The ...
Seven seconds. That’s how long it took a single lightning flash to streak across the sky from east Texas nearly to Kansas City, Missouri, — a 515-mile journey that has set a new world record for the ...
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New state crowned 2025 lightning capital of the US, knocking off Florida
The most electrified place in the country is no longer the Sunshine State. New data for 2025 shows that Florida has been ...
An enormous, 515-mile-long flash of lightning that crossed at least three states has been named the longest in recorded history in the world. The 2017 “megaflash” stretched from eastern Texas to near ...
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