While reporting during an active storm, meteorologist Tony Laubach is caught off guard when a powerful lightning bolt strikes dangerously close by in Gardner, Illinois on March 10.

It happened around 9:54 p.m. at a home on Drake Avenue in Oakley.

A bolt of lightning hit One World Trade Center, the tallest skyscraper in the US, in the early hours of Thursday, March 12, ...

Lightning can strike up to 25 miles away from a storm and reach temperatures five times hotter than the sun. Meteorologist ...

As spring approaches, we can expect more severe storms, which can bring deadly lightning strikes. While summer is the busiest ...

A fire at a North Peoria apartment building caused by a lightning strike during a storm caused $250,000 in damage, displaced two people, and was contained within 20 minutes with no injuries reported.

Over the last 30 years, lightning has killed an average of 51 people per year. Many more strikes result in permanent injury ...

Crews continue working to repair damage from a lightning strike that sparked a fire at the Saint John of the Ladder Orthodox Church in Greenville County.

The fire department said just before 12:30 p.m., firefighters at a "lightning strike investigation" discovered fire in the basement of a home ...

Lightning strikes a house in Olathe, causing a fire and leaving a family homeless. No injuries reported.