The flash happened in October 2017. Nobody knew it had happened until software rewrote the archive seven years later. At ...

Thunderstorms blew through parts of Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri, on Sunday, September 6, according to the National Weather ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.– One Missouri woman died in June after being struck by lightning, putting Missouri on the list of the top 5 states for lightning deaths in 2025. On June 26, 2025, a 26-year-old woman ...

A 515-mile-long lightning flash from Texas to Missouri in 2017 has been named the world’s longest electrical bolt thanks to U.S. satellite imagery displacing a past record-holder as climate change ...

Lightning-related deaths are most common in June, July and August, with July accounting for nearly one-third of annual fatalities. While lightning deaths have decreased, the risk may increase due to ...

Southeast Missouri State game in Ames was placed in a weather delay due to lightning in the area, per Bill Seals of Cyclone ...

In October 2017, lightning flashed across the sky in America’s heartland. But this wasn’t your average storm. The single, enormous bolt—known as a “megaflash”—stretched across multiple states, from ...