Cypress Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over fifteen years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Cypress, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of Texas’s worst weather. You see, we’re smack in the middle of that corridor between the Gulf moisture and the dry western fronts, and when those two collide, they don’t mess around. Our storm season really ramps up in the spring—March through May—and then again in the fall, and those aren’t just gentle rain showers. We get these supercell thunderstorms that roll in fast, and the hail they drop isn’t that little pea-sized stuff. I’m talking golf ball to baseball sized chunks that hit your shingles like a hammer, and because our homes here often have those steep pitches and lots of valleys, the impact just hammers the same spots over and over.

What makes it even worse is the wind that comes with those storms. We’re not just dealing with a 40 mph gust; we get straight-line winds that can hit 80 or 90 mph, and they come at your roof from every direction because of the open, flat terrain around here. There’s no hills or tree lines to break it up, so that wind gets under your shingles and starts peeling them back like a sardine can. And here’s the kicker—after a big hailstorm, the granules get knocked loose, and then the next windy day just finishes the job, exposing the mat to the brutal Texas sun. So it’s not a matter of *if* your roof takes a beating, it’s a matter of *when*, and I see it every single year after those big spring fronts push through.