Roof Replacement & Repair in Kenly, North Carolina
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Straight-line distance from the Rocky Mount office
Kenly lies 34.4 miles south-west of the Carolina Trophy Roofs office in Rocky Mount — a straight line drawn between the office at 136 S. Business Ct and this page's own coordinates (35.5937, -78.1239).
Straight-line distance, not drive time — the road is longer, and how long it takes depends on the route.
- Elm City 14.8 mi south
- Wilson 21.0 mi south
- Lucama 29.1 mi south-west
- Micro 38.1 mi south-west
- Princeton 42.9 mi south-west
- Selma 43.2 mi south-west
- Pine Level 43.3 mi south-west
- Four Oaks 53.1 mi south-west
Storm record · Johnston County
In Johnston County the roof threat is wind, not hail
What the public record says about roofs in Kenly and the rest of Johnston County
161 of the 178 roof-relevant events NOAA recorded in Johnston County between 2016 and 2026 were thunderstorm wind. Hail accounts for 13. The strongest gust in the file is 50 kt, measured on Apr 28, 2016. For completeness, the largest hail the county has on record is Ping Pong Ball at 1.50 in, on May 3, 2016 — a single day, not a pattern.
Wind does not damage a roof the way hail does, and it does not damage the same parts of it. Wind works on the edges. Uplift concentrates along the eaves, the rake edges and the ridge, where a shingle's sealant strip is the only thing holding the tab down; once one tab breaks its seal the course above loses its anchor and the failure runs along the line. That is why wind damage tends to appear as a clean run of lifted or missing tabs at a perimeter rather than as scattered marks across the middle of a slope. On a roof in this county the places worth looking at first are the ridge caps, the first two courses above the gutter, the rake edge on the side the weather comes from, and the metal flashing where the roof meets a wall or a chimney.
The $26,592,000 figure is NOAA's reported property damage for the whole of Johnston County from these storms, 2016–2026 — a county-wide reporting total. It is not the cost of a roof, and it is not an amount paid to any property owner.
Individual events in the Johnston County file
- Aug 15, 2019 -- Thunderstorm Wind (50 kt gust) -- $25.00M property damage reported
- Apr 19, 2019 -- Tornado (EF1) -- $400K property damage reported
- May 3, 2016 -- Hail (Ping Pong Ball hail, 1.50 in)
Event descriptions as recorded in the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database.
Recorded events by year
- 20’162016
- 12’172017
- 16’182018
- 23’192019
- 13’202020
- 15’212021
- 17’222022
- 25’232023
- 12’242024
- 24’252025
- 1’262026*
* 2026 is a partial year — the record runs to the most recent update of the source, not to the end of the year, so its bar is not comparable with the others. A year showing zero had no recorded hail, tornado or thunderstorm-wind event in this county.
The record next door
The communities nearest Kenly reach into 1 other county, and those counties do not share Johnston County's record:
- Wilson (Wilson County) — 95 recorded events; largest hail Baseball at 2.00 in, May 3, 2016; most recent entry Aug 8, 2024 (Tornado)
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Johnston County (U.S. Government work, public domain). Counts cover roof-relevant event types only — hail, tornado and thunderstorm wind. Records are county-level; NOAA does not log these events by street address.
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