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ROCKY MOUNT — Friday marked the start of celebrations in honor of Rocky Mount’s 150th anniversary. Several town officials and business leaders gathered at the Rocky Mount Train Depot to ...
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WITN) - The mayor of Rocky Mount is running for Congress in the First Congressional District. Two-term Republican mayor Sandy Roberson announced his bid for the candidacy today ...
By 3 p.m., Duke Energy’s outage map showed more than 12,000 customers across the state without power as a result of the weather, including about 1,000 in the Charlotte area and about 3,000 in ...
Along with the EF3 tornado in Rocky Mount from Helene, there have now just been four EF3 tornadoes on record in the state from tropical systems. Extreme weather in a warming climate North Carolina has ...
The fall foliage season is upon us, but how has Helene impacted leaf-peeping season and what can still be accessed with hundreds of roads still closed including the Blue Ridge Parkway?
President Joe Biden has agreed to provide immediate federal help to 25 western North Carolina counties battered by Helene, the White House announced Saturday night. The “major disaster ...
Biden approves NC disaster relief after Helene flooding; Rocky Mount recovering after 140 mph tornado injures 15; Gov. Cooper sending supplies by air to Western NC; Duke Energy dealing with ...
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- The effects of Helene touched all parts of our state. The most severe impact we saw in our area is in Rocky Mount after a tornado ripped through Friday. ABC11 crews are on the ...
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WNCN) — An EF3 tornado with estimated peak winds of 140 miles per hour touched down in Rocky Mount around 1:30 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service confirmed. The “powerful but ...
Rocky Mount is about an hour east of Raleigh. Another potential tornado touched down in Garland, about 80 miles south of Raleigh in Sampson County. The National Weather Service is sending teams to ...
A tornado associated with Hurricane Helene, now a tropical depression, touched down in a Nash County city on Friday, Sept. 27, injuring 15 people. Around 1:30 p.m., the tornado struck two ...
A Category 4 hurricane arrived in Florida, became tropical storm when it hit Raleigh, Durham North Carolina. Latest weather info on what it will mean for the Triangle.