Texas saw 13M lightning flashes in 2025 as Great Plains becomes severe storm epicenter

The Great Plains region, including Oklahoma and parts of Texas, is experiencing more frequent severe storms, according to a ...

There's a new lightning capital of the US. It's no longer Florida.

The U.S. has a new lightning champion. Oklahoma has dethroned Florida to become the nation's lightning capital, according to ...
UPI

Great Plains lighting bolt spanning three states sets shocking record

Aug. 5 (UPI) --A massive lightning bolt that stretched from eastern Texas to just outside of Kansas City, Mo., has been officially recognized as the largest recorded flash by the World Meteorological ...
New York Post

A massive lightning ‘megaflash’ set a world record — it stretched for a whopping 515 miles

A super-sized lightning bolt struck scientists as something special. Now, researchers have confirmed that a lightning strike from 2017 has broken a world record. A single flash of lightning that ...
AOL

Severe storms to bring damaging hail and winds to Plains and Midwest

Rounds of severe thunderstorms will roar from the parts of the Rockies to portions of the Great Plains and Midwest through this weekend, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The severe weather can be ...
KCBD

LIVESTREAM: Thunderstorms on South Plains

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - update 6:59 p.m. - Scattered slow-moving thunderstorms are over the western South Plains, moving eastward. Elsewhere, isolated storms are developing. Because the air is ...