Month: July 2023

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — People are picking up the pieces after a violent tornado ripped through Nash and Edgecombe counties Wednesday, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Just before 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a tornado touched down north of Rocky Mount, near the Battleboro and Dortches communities. Dozens of homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed, including the Pfizer plant in Rocky Mount. There are now 16 confirmed injuries – 13 in Nash…

Thursday, July 20, 2023 7:46PM ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) — As the cleanup process begins in Nash County, community members and crews are out at the scene of the destruction offering help in the rebuilding. It’s hard to think anyone would take advantage of homeowners who already lost so much to the tornado, but unfortunately, when money is involved, it happens. Helen Manning has lived in her home for 9 years. She has made improvements…

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) — The fallout from a Pfizer plant being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts said. Wednesday’s tornado touched down near Rocky Mount and ripped up the roof of a Pfizer factory that makes nearly 25% of all sterile injectable medicines used in U.S. hospitals, according to the drugmaker. Pfizer said all employees were safely evacuated and accounted for, and that…

Thursday, July 20, 2023 5:39PM ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) — The EF-3 tornado that touched down Wednesday came with a warning for some, but not 10 men out at Belmont Lake Golf Course. “I was scared… all of us were scared,” said Pat Smith. The group left their phones in their cars and in a matter of minutes, everything changed. They jumped in the golf cart and searched for shelter. “And that tree fell in…

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — People are picking up the pieces after a violent tornado ripped through Nash and Edgecombe counties Wednesday, leaving a path of destruction in its wake. Just before 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, a tornado touched down north of Rocky Mount, near the Battleboro and Dortches communities. Dozens of homes and buildings were damaged or destroyed, including the Pfizer plant in Rocky Mount. There are now 16 confirmed injuries — 13 in Nash…

Weather Many people who were in the path of this storm are working through the shock of seeing their homes and businesses destroyed. Crews are working on cleaning up the destruction left behind by the tornado that hit north of Rocky Mount on Wednesday.