Long Shot

As shown here, lightning can strike far away from its point of origin.

Another astounding fact is that lightning can strike miles away from the storm that made it. One strike has actually been recorded to be 50 miles away from the source. The strikes made at these large distances tend to be rather rare. Amazingly though most lightning strikes tend to be within at least 10 miles from the storm. Which is still quite a rather large distance so whatever you do don’t fall into false security if the storm is not directly above you because even with a large distance it can still strike you or something nearby.