Cunningham Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Cunningham gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that corridor where the dry-line from the west collides with the Gulf moisture rolling up from the southeast, especially in the spring and early summer. That’s when those supercell storms just explode out of nowhere, usually late afternoon, and they don’t just bring rain—they bring hail the size of golf balls, sometimes bigger, and straight-line winds that’ll peel shingles right off the deck. The geography doesn’t help either; we’re on that open, flat prairie with not a hill or a tree line to break the wind, so a storm that might weaken over Paris or Clarksville just barrels through here at full strength, hammering every roof in its path.

And it’s not just the big spring storms you have to worry about. We get those nasty October and November cold fronts that stall right over Lamar County, and they’ll sit there and drop marble-sized hail for an hour straight, just pinging away at your asphalt. That repeated, smaller hail is honestly worse than the big stuff sometimes, because it bruises the shingles and knocks the granules off without you even noticing until the next rain finds every weak spot. Plus, the wind here doesn’t have to be a tornado to do damage—a solid 60-mile-an-hour gust off a thunderstorm will lift those shingle tabs and drive water right under them, and once that felt paper gets wet, the whole roof is compromised. I tell folks all the time, if you’ve got a roof older than ten years in Cunningham, you’re not asking *if* it’s going to leak, you’re asking *where* it’s going to leak first.