GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Have you ever looked up to the sky during a storm to see a massive bolt of lightning and wondered how does that form? Well, the WITN WEATHER TEAM has you covered... STEP #1: ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Lightning is a common occurrence in Virginia and North Carolina, but have you ever wondered how and why it forms? Think of the formation of lightning as if you are playing with magnets.

Updrafts in thunderstorms help lift positive ions from near the surface to higher levels of the cloud. Negative ions build in the mid-levels due to the presence of graupel and ice crystals. This ...

Superbolts of lightning are rare; they only make up about one percent of all lightning strikes. But they are incredibly strong; compared to the average lightning strike, which carries about 300 ...

Physicists have long known how lightning ends, in a blinding discharge that can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun, ...

KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — East Tennessee saw some severe weather as we started the second week of May, which caught many by surprise. One threat we saw plenty of was lightning, and we were not alone.