Oklahoma: World's Longest Lightning Bolt

…scientists have just announced new world records for distance and duration of single lightning flashes… The distance champ… 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 …almost 200 miles… In addition to its cloud-to-cloud travels, the discharge also sent at least 13 bolts down to the ground,…