A New WMO-Certified Single Megaflash Lightning Record Distance: 829 km (515 mi) Occurring on 22 October 2017

Michael J. Peterson; Rachel Albrecht; Sven Erik Enno; Ronald L. Holle; Timothy Lang; Timothy Logan; Walter A. Lyons; Joan Montanya; Shriram Sharma; Yoav Yair; Jessica Losego; Randall S. Cerveny

doi:10.1175/bams-d-25-0037.1

A New WMO-Certified Single Megaflash Lightning Record Distance: 829 km (515 mi) Occurring on 22 October 2017

Michael J. Peterson
, Rachel Albrecht
, Sven Erik Enno
, Ronald L. Holle
, Timothy Lang
, Timothy Logan
, Walter A. Lyons
, Joan Montanya
, Shriram Sharma
, Yoav Yair
, Jessica Losego
, Randall S. Cerveny

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	627-631
Number of pages	5
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	106
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-25-0037.1
State	Published - 31 Jul 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Peterson, M. J., Albrecht, R., Enno, S. E., Holle, R. L., Lang, T., Logan, T., Lyons, W. A., Montanya, J., Sharma, S., Yair, Y., Losego, J., & Cerveny, R. S. (2025). A New WMO-Certified Single Megaflash Lightning Record Distance: 829 km (515 mi) Occurring on 22 October 2017. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(9), 627-631. https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-25-0037.1

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