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The longest single lightning flash ever recorded stretched from eastern Texas to near Kansas City in a 2017 storm. How long was it, in kilometres?

829
km
One continuous lightning flash stretched 768 km from Texas to Mississippi — the distance from London to Zurich, in a single bolt.SOURCEWorld Meteorological Organization
Scale check: 829 is roughly a packed double-decker bus.
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