A bolt of lightning nearly 500 miles long that stretched from Texas to Mississippi has set a new world record for the longest flash.
A bolt of lightning nearly 500 miles long that stretched across three states has set a new world record for the longest flash.
The longest single flash was recorded across parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and covered a horizontal distance of 477.2 miles on April 29, 2020. The previous record was 440.6 miles wide across parts of southern Brazil on Oct. 31, 2018. Another single bolt of lightning on June 18, 2020, lasted 17.1 seconds over Uruguay and northern Argentina. It broke the previous 2019 record of 16.7 seconds for the greatest duration for a single lightning flash.
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