Roof Replacement & Repair in Speed, North Carolina
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Straight-line distance from the Rocky Mount office
Speed lies 19.4 miles east 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 (35.9679, -77.4322).
Straight-line distance, not drive time — the road is longer, and how long it takes depends on the route.
- Battleboro 2.9 mi north-east
- Rocky Mount 4.6 mi south
- Red Oak 7.9 mi north-west
- Whitakers 7.9 mi north-east
- Nashville 10.7 mi west
- Enfield 13.3 mi north-east
- Tarboro 15.4 mi south-east
- Halifax 24.8 mi north-east
Storm record · Edgecombe County
Edgecombe County's record includes 6 tornadoes
What the public record says about roofs in Speed and the rest of Edgecombe County
Between 2016 and 2026 NOAA logged 57 roof-relevant storm events in Edgecombe County: 41 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail and 6 tornadoes. The strongest straight-line gust on file is 50 kt, on Feb 24, 2016.
Tornado damage is different in kind from everything else in this record. It is narrow — a track a few hundred yards wide can take the roofs off one street and leave the next street untouched — and inside the track the failure is structural rather than cosmetic: decking lifted off the rafters, whole roof planes removed, debris driven through what is left. For the far larger number of homes that sit outside the track, the damage is the same physics as any severe-wind event: pressure at the edges lifting tabs along the eaves and rakes, ridge caps displaced, and impact marks from debris carried out of the track. Both are worth looking at after a tornado-producing system crosses the county, and the dated entries below say when those systems came through.
The $785,500 figure is NOAA's reported property damage for the whole of Edgecombe 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 Edgecombe County file
- Jul 19, 2023 -- Tornado (EF3) -- $250K property damage reported
- May 31, 2019 -- Hail (Baseball hail, 2.50 in)
- Apr 19, 2019 -- Tornado (EF1) -- $50K property damage reported
Event descriptions as recorded in the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database.
Recorded events by year
- 4’162016
- 1’172017
- 3’182018
- 16’192019
- 1’202020
- 2’212021
- 12’222022
- 8’232023
- 2’242024
- 8’252025
- 0’262026*
* 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 Speed reach into 2 other counties, and those counties do not share Edgecombe County's record:
- Rocky Mount (Nash County) — 117 recorded events; largest hail Golf Ball at 1.75 in, Apr 7, 2022; most recent entry May 5, 2025 (Hail)
- Enfield (Halifax County) — 101 recorded events; peak recorded gust 50 kt, Aug 17, 2016; most recent entry May 27, 2024 (Hail)
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Edgecombe 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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