Tornado near Rocky Mount

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According to WRAL, there's a "hole in the roof" of the Pfizer building.

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Luckily we are all good here. I had been following the storm coming to time going to Linc h while the heavy rain was coming down.

The worst part passed about a mile south of where I was working today before forming the tornado.

A lot of property damage, I think less than 12 people taken to hospital.

Pfizer is closed until further notice, both my BIL work there. Sam was currently being head hunted from there so unsure how all that will be affected. Lots of down power lines/ broken trees, and houses destroyed. Thankfully it missed most neighborhoods and schools directly. About half of rocky mount was without power for most of the day from 1230 on. Getting it back on as fast as they can.

My MIL watched it cross Pfizer across her field/pond. Missed her by about a half mile.

Missed my BIL house by about 350 yards!!!!

Most of the damage is in about a 300yd wide swath from Northern Nash High school into edgecombe county and towards tarboro.
 
Potential for a repeat tomorrow from Columbia SC all the way up to Central NC. Stay aware!
 
That's just damn scary. Tin foil hat placed firmly on head: Is this where we are headed if we keep cutting down trees and building more rural sprawl. I've always wondered if these harsh events was in direct correlation to vast expanses of treeless area and thermal masses doing there thing.
Kansas has fields and fields.....we are building houses after houses. Tornado belts seem to be open swaths and paths for air masses to build and swirl. My theory is large amounts of trees do something beneficial by upsetting the water cycle to get rains and humidity to exchange before making massive columns. Columns that also get rotation from open expanses of unimpeded air flow over great distances.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
That's just damn scary. Tin foil hat placed firmly on head: Is this where we are headed if we keep cutting down trees and building more rural sprawl. I've always wondered if these harsh events was in direct correlation to vast expanses of treeless area and thermal masses doing there thing.
Kansas has fields and fields.....we are building houses after houses. Tornado belts seem to be open swaths and paths for air masses to build and swirl. My theory is large amounts of trees do something beneficial by upsetting the water cycle to get rains and humidity to exchange before making massive columns. Columns that also get rotation from open expanses of unimpeded air flow over great distances.
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So your saying that you believe humans can have an effect on our climate.....
 
My son was at my wife's sister's house in Red Oak and he said they were upstairs and the house started shaking and lights flickering. Storm track said it went right over their house before it touched down, looks like they were extremely lucky. I work for a pharma engineering company and we do a lot of work at Pfizer. I'm sure we'll get a report on the damage from our on-site guys.
 
awheelterd said:
So your saying that you believe humans can have an effect on our climate.....
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Simple yes to a degree.
To large a brush stroke for me but in all things yes we have influence. Enough to cause complete eradication of the species, nah. But we can sure make it small bits of hell before mother nature hits a reset in the form of a large very destructive pattern.
I have always believed extreme patterns was the balance beam going back toward a reset. Man influenced or Mother Nature having a menstrual moment.
 
WARRIORWELDING said:
That's just damn scary. Tin foil hat placed firmly on head: Is this where we are headed if we keep cutting down trees and building more rural sprawl. I've always wondered if these harsh events was in direct correlation to vast expanses of treeless area and thermal masses doing there thing.
Kansas has fields and fields.....we are building houses after houses. Tornado belts seem to be open swaths and paths for air masses to build and swirl. My theory is large amounts of trees do something beneficial by upsetting the water cycle to get rains and humidity to exchange before making massive columns. Columns that also get rotation from open expanses of unimpeded air flow over great distances.
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Charlotte Weather guys, say that System, formed in the Mountains Or foothills, traveled through Charlotte with a huge burst of Rain, & Finally gained it's strength, as it got towards Rocky Mount.
 
rodney eppes said:
Charlotte Weather guys, say that System, formed in the Mountains Or foothills, traveled through Charlotte with a huge burst of Rain, & Finally gained it's strength, as it got towards Rocky Mount.
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I was watching it for the 30 mins prior to time our lunch break during the rain.

During lunch in about a 3-5 minute time span that horseshoe developed and then rotation began.

Prior to that it was just a regular summer thunderstorm.

Wasn’t even a tornado watch or anything. I will say that the alert warning went out within a minute of forming based upon where it was on radar, and where the damage started.

That said verizon customers in the area were alerted about 15 mins prior to us cellular which was odd.
 
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The Sanford Pfizer site sent me and four other people to help out with trying to get the power back on to the utilities and HVAC. It was pretty devastating looking in person compared to the pictures you see. The bad part about that happening to that plant is that it supplies around 25% of the injectable products in the United States…
 
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DirkaDirka875 said:
The Sanford Pfizer site sent me and four other people to help out with trying to get the power back on to the utilities and HVAC. It was pretty devastating looking in person compared to the pictures you see. The bad part about that happening to that plant is that it supplies around 25% of the injectable products in the United States…
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Not sure if it's true or not, but the news said the mfg side was not damaged. Only the storage had damage. But, considering a lot of injectable meds need refridgeration, that could be a big problem.
 
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