WMO World Record Lightning Extremes: Longest Reported Flash Distance and Longest Reported Flash Duration

Lang, Timothy J.; Pédeboy, Stéphane; Rison, William; Cerveny, Randall S.; Montanyà, Joan; Chauzy, Serge; MacGorman, Donald R.; Holle, Ronald L.; Ávila, Eldo E.; Zhang, Yijun; Carbin, Gregory; Mansell, Edward R.; Kuleshov, Yuriy; Peterson, Thomas C.; Brunet, Manola; Driouech, Fatima; Krahenbuhl, Daniel S.

doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0061.1

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WMO World Record Lightning Extremes: Longest Reported Flash Distance and Longest Reported Flash Duration

2017
By Lang, Timothy J. ; Pédeboy, Stéphane ; Rison, William ; ...
Source: Bull Am Meteorol Soc. 98(6), 1153–1168.

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Lang, Timothy J. ; Pédeboy, Stéphane ; Rison, William ; Cerveny, Randall S. ; Montanyà, Joan ; ... More +

Lang, Timothy J. ; Pédeboy, Stéphane ; Rison, William ; Cerveny, Randall S. ; Montanyà, Joan ; Chauzy, Serge ; MacGorman, Donald R. ; Holle, Ronald L. ; Ávila, Eldo E. ; Zhang, Yijun ; Carbin, Gregory ; Mansell, Edward R. ; Kuleshov, Yuriy ; Peterson, Thomas C. ; Brunet, Manola ; Driouech, Fatima ; Krahenbuhl, Daniel S. Less -
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A WMO committee has judged that the world’s longest reported distance (321 km) for a single lightning flash occurred over Oklahoma in 2007, while the world’s longest reported duration (7.74 s) for a single lightning flash occurred over southern France in 2012.
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