As sz4kerto said, it was probably tracked by building systems. But beyond that, weather services track every single lightning strike in most of the developed wo

As sz4kerto said, it was probably tracked by building systems. But beyond that, weather services track every single lightning strike in most of the developed world. Eg BELLS: http://radar.meteo.be/en/3337408-Lightning+detection.html#ppt_10819449 http://radar.meteo.be/en/3337408-Lightning+detection.html#pp... This is how, for example, you can know whether a wildfire was started by lightning - once a point of origin is determined, simply check the data for strikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_detection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_detection http://www.lightningmaps.org/ http://www.lightningmaps.org/