Fulton 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 Fulton, it’s that you’re living in Mother Nature’s batting cage. We sit right on that little elbow of Copano Bay, and that open water acts like a runway for storms. When a front pushes down from the Hill Country or a tropical system churns up from the Gulf, the wind doesn’t just blow through—it funnels and accelerates right over the bay before slamming into our rooftops. And it’s not just the speed; it’s the direction. We get these nasty northeast blows in the spring that hit your ridge lines at just the wrong angle, lifting shingles like a crowbar before the rain even starts.

Now, the hail is the real sneaky devil here. We’re in that sweet spot where warm, moist Gulf air collides with cooler upper-level winds, and that’s the exact recipe for those supercell thunderstorms that pop up in April and May. Those storms love to stall right over the water and drop marble-to-baseball-sized hail that gets carried by that bay breeze. I’ve pulled shingles off roofs in Fulton that looked like someone took a shotgun to them—not because the hail was huge, but because the wind was whipping those ice balls sideways at 50 miles an hour, driving them under the edges of your shingles. You combine that with the intense UV from the salt air breaking down your asphalt, and your roof doesn’t stand a chance. It’s not a matter of if you’ll get hit; it’s a matter of when, and I’d rather you hear it from me now than after your living room ceiling starts dripping.