Eddy Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Eddy doesn’t get lucky when it comes to spring storms. We sit right in that corridor where the dry West Texas air slams into the Gulf moisture rolling up from the coast, and that collision is a recipe for supercell thunderstorms. Those storms don’t just sprinkle—they drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger, and the wind that comes with them isn’t a straight-line breeze either. It’s that violent, swirling outflow that rips shingles right off the deck. The geography doesn’t help us one bit, either. We’re surrounded by flat, open farmland, so there’s nothing to break up that wind before it hits your ridge line. A tree line or a hill might slow things down in other towns, but here, that storm gets a full head of steam and hits your roof like a freight train with no brakes.

And it’s not just one bad day a year—it’s a pattern. Our worst months are typically April through June, but I’ve seen nasty hail in October and even a freak March storm that shredded a whole neighborhood. The problem is the temperature swings we get in the spring. One afternoon it’s 85 degrees, and by evening it’s 50 with a cold front pushing through. That sudden change makes the air unstable, and before you know it, the sky turns that sickly green color. That’s when I start getting the phone calls. The hail here isn’t just round ice either—it’s often jagged and dense because it gets bounced around in those strong updrafts, so it lands like a hammer instead of a pebble. If your roof is older than ten years, those asphalt shingles are already brittle from the Texas sun, and one good storm is all it takes to turn a minor ding into a full-blown leak. I tell folks all the time: in Eddy, you’re not asking *if* you’ll get hail damage, you’re asking *when*—and you better be ready for it.