Dunn Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and Dunn sits right in that nasty little corridor where the Caprock and the low rolling plains meet. That geography acts like a funnel for spring storms. When those supercells build up over the South Plains and start tracking southeast, they hit that change in elevation and the air gets squeezed, which makes the hail bigger and the winds a whole lot meaner than what you’d see ten miles in any other direction. We’re not talking about a little pea gravel here—I’ve pulled golf-ball and even baseball-sized stones out of people’s yards after a May blow, and those things hit your shingles like a shotgun blast. The wind is just as bad, because it comes in straight-line gusts that can hit 70 or 80 miles an hour, and that’s enough to peel back a brand new architectural shingle if it’s not nailed down just right.

And it’s not just one storm a year, either. Our severe season runs from late April all the way through June, and then we get a second round in the fall when those cold fronts start clashing with the leftover summer heat. That means your roof takes a beating over and over, and the damage isn’t always obvious at first. A hail strike might just bruise the fiberglass mat, but that weak spot will start cracking and curling within a year, and then the wind gets under it and lifts it right off. I tell folks all the time, if you live in Dunn, you’re not asking *if* you’ll need a roof replacement—you’re just asking *when*. That’s just the price of living in this beautiful, wild part of Texas.