It’s yet another example of why Florida is known as the lightning capital of the United States. A bolt of lightning struck the National Weather Service office in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon, ...

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 ...

A lightning bolt stretching 515 miles (829 km) from eastern Texas to near Kansas City has set a terrifying new record as the longest single lightning flash ever recorded. There are only two places on ...