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A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash. The single flash extended 477.2 miles (768 kilometers) across Texas ...
It's not quite the right time to debunk that myth about lightning never striking the same place twice, as an enormous bolt has set a new global record.The longest single flash of lightning has ...
The WMO said the 477.2-mile-long flash broke the previous record for longest detected megaflash distance by about 37 miles (60 km).A second record was also confirmed, for the longest duration of a ...
A 2020 lightning bolt across the southern United States set the record for the longest lightning bolt ever detected. The bolt stretched for 477 miles (768 kilometers) over Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, although it was between clouds and did not strike the ground.
Longest lightning bolt: 768 km (477 mi) on 29 April 2020 in the southern United States. [ 326 ] Longest duration for a single lightning flash : 17.1 seconds on 18 June 2020 in Uruguay and northern Argentina .
Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was an American park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 And 1977, Sullivan was claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven occasions, surviving all of them.
Along the Gulf Coast in April of 2020, a flash of lightning stretched as far as the distance between New York City and Columbus, Ohio.
Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]