One is now recognized as the longest recorded lightning strike in history … A 440-Mile Lightning Strike (As Long As Florida) Is Officially The Longest Bolt Ever Recorded. One stretched over Brazil some 418 miles from tip to tail—slightly longer than Kansas is across. Brazil Sets Record With 435-Mile Long Lightning Bolt June 25, 2020, 2:14 PM The World Meteorological Organization announced on Thursday that there’s a new record holder for the longest distance lightning flash. The United Nation's World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has just announced that the longest lightning strike on record was a 2007 bolt in Oklahoma that stretched 321 km (200 miles) - almost reaching from one side of the state to the other. The UN's weather agency announced Thursday the longest lightning bolt on record—a single flash in Brazil on October 31, 2018 that cut the sky across more than 700 kilometers. It was so big, in … © World Meteorological Organization A satellite image of the longest lightning flash in recorded history. World's longest lightning bolt stretched for nearly 200 miles across Oklahoma. Using new satellite lightning imagery technology, the committee of scientists confirmed the epic bolt was more than twice as long as the previous record-holder, a 200-mile-long streak of … https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/oklahoma/terrifying-lightning-bolt-ok The 709km lightning bolt would be long enough to stretch from Sydney to Melbourne. His analysis revealed two record-breaking lightning flashes, the longest by length and by duration. Now that's a BIG shock! Scientists recorded a bolt of lightning … The flash traveled nearly 441 miles across southern Brazil on October 31, 2018. This new "megaflash" dwarfs the official record for the longest lightning flash, a 199.5 mile long bolt that was observed over Oklahoma in 2007. The World Meteorological Organization just certified two lightning strikes as world records.