Forsan Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Forsan, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of West Texas weather. We’re out on that flat, open prairie with nothing but miles of scrub brush and oil fields to break the wind, so when a spring storm rolls in from the southwest, it doesn’t slow down for anything. That flat terrain acts like a wind tunnel, and those supercell thunderstorms that pop up in April and May—the ones that look all green and angry on the radar—they’ll drop hail the size of golf balls without a second thought. I’ve pulled shingles off roofs out here that looked like someone took a shotgun to them, and it’s not just the big stones that do the damage; it’s the sheer volume of them coming down sideways at sixty miles an hour.

And it’s not just spring, either. We get those violent cold fronts slamming through in the fall, and even a random July derecho can catch you off guard. The problem is, most homes in Forsan were built with standard three-tab shingles that just aren’t rated for that kind of abuse. The wind gets under a lifted edge, peels it back like a sardine can, and then the hail finishes the job by bruising the matting so bad that the granules wash off in the next rain. You might not see it from the ground, but up on that roof, I can show you where the impact points have turned the shingle brittle as a cracker. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get hit—it’s a matter of *when*, and when that happens, you want a roof that’s built to take a beating, not one that’s just waiting for the next storm to finish it off.