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North Carolina’s strongest July tornado on record damaged Pfizer facility The fast-moving tornado, rated EF3, caused extensive damage northwest of Rocky Mount on Wednesday Updated July 20, 2023 ...
Tornado tears through North Carolina, killing at least 3 An apparent tornado killed three people and injured 10 others as it struck a coastal North Carolina town, authorities said.
A tornado watch is also in effect until 8 a.m. Friday for a few North Carolina counties south of Raleigh. These include Sampson, Cumberland and Hoke counties in CBS 17’s viewership area.
It had been 56 years since North Carolina had seen a tornado in July that wrecked the kind of havoc we saw on Wednesday in Nash and Edgecombe counties. The only other EF3 tornado to occur in July ...
A man has been found dead after his home in North Carolina was hit by a tornado. Wilson County officials told local media that they had found the body of a man within the wreckage of a house that ...
An EF3 tornado touched down in Rocky Mount and Battleboro, North Carolina, July 19, 2023, heavily damaging a Pfizer product facility and injuring more than a dozen people. Here is coverage from ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina has had nearly 1,500 reported tornadoes since 1950, and around one-third of those happen in April and May. With the Carolinas in turbulent springtime weather, WCNC ...
In 2019, the National Weather Service estimated that North Carolina sees about 31 tornadoes per year. A 2023 study by N.C. State University said the state averages about 29 tornadoes per year.