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CLOSE Scientists identified all-time world records for both the longest lightning bolt and the world's longest-duration lightning flash. USA TODAY 
  
 The world record for longest lightning bolt was set in Oklahoma in 2007. (Photo: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) 
  
 Talk about some shocking news from the sky! 
  
 Scientists identified all-time world records for both the longest lightning bolt — nearly 200 miles — and the world’s longest-duration lightning flash — over 7 seconds — according to a report released Thursday. 
  
 Both records were certified by the World Meteorological Organization, which is in charge of documenting such things. 
  
 The record-long lightning bolt was spotted over Oklahoma on June 20, 2007, and traveled 199.5 miles, about three-quarters the length of the state. That's almost the distance from New York City to Washington, D.C. 
  
 The world’s longest-lasting lightning flash lasted for 7.74 seconds on Aug 30, 2012, over Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. 
  
 A report about the records has been accepted for publication in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 
  
 This "reinforces critical safety information regarding lightning, specifically that lightning flashes can travel huge distances from their parent thunderstorms," said Randall Cerveny, chief Rapporteur of Climate and Weather Extremes for the WMO and a professor at Arizona State University. 
  
 "Our experts’ best advice: when thunder roars, go indoors,“ he said. 
  
 The lightning strikes were detected using extremely sensitive radio receivers, Cerveny said, likening it to how AM radio sounds during a thunderstorm, when the static of the lightning discharge can be heard. "We set out these extremely sensitive radio receivers to 'hear' a storm, to triangulate exactly where the lightning flash starts and ends," he said. 
  
 So far this year, 35 Americans have been killed by lightning, the National Weather Service said, making it the deadliest year since 2007, when 45 people died. 
  
 This is the first time lightning has been included in the official World Meteorological Organization Archive of Weather and Climate Extremes, which documents records for heat, cold, wind speed, rainfall and other events. 
  
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2d3llHE ||||| Most lightning bolts last just a few milliseconds and travel fewer than a dozen kilometers. But scientists have just announced new world records for distance and duration of single lightning flashes—and boy, are they surprising. Reviewing data gathered by networks of sensors that monitor the electromagnetic radiation triggered by lightning discharges (the bursts of static so familiar to those who listen to AM radio), the researchers were able to triangulate the positions where lightning bolts originated and the routes they traveled. The distance champ (not pictured) leapt to life just south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the middle of a long line of midafternoon thunderstorms on 20 June 2007 and then shot westward nearly to the Texas border—a distance of 321 kilometers (almost 200 miles), the researchers report online today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . In addition to its cloud-to-cloud travels, the discharge also sent at least 13 bolts down to the ground, the researchers note. The longest duration single flash of lightning occurred over southern France in the early morning of 30 August 2012; it doubled back on itself and thus traveled a mere 160 kilometers, the researchers say, but it lasted a whopping 7.74 seconds. |||||
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Even among lightning, these two bolts shone bright. For the first time ever, the World Meteorological Organization has added official records for lightning to its list of notable temperatures, winds, and rains, USA Today reports. That means we now know the longest traveling lightning bolt was over Oklahoma in June 2007. According to Science, it started just outside Tulsa and traveled 199.5 miles, nearly reaching the Texas border. Along the way, it sent 13 different bolts streaking to the ground. Meanwhile, the longest lasting lightning bolt lit up the sky over France for 7.74 seconds in August 2012. Impressive stuff, considering most bolts last less than a second and travel no further than a few miles.