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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This year there have been a record number of flash flood warnings when comparing the same time period, according to data from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. The 3,722 flash flood warnings that have ...

In the middle of a huge midwest storm, a flash of lightning stretched 515 miles from east Texas to Kansas City, Mo., setting a new record. The flash occurred in October 2017, but scientists didn't ...