Hobson Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Hobson gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that corridor where Gulf moisture slams into the dry West Texas air, and that’s a recipe for supercell storms that spin up out of nowhere. The hail isn’t just pea-sized either—we regularly see golf ball to baseball size stones coming down sideways with those 60 to 70 mile an hour winds. And because the ground is so flat and open, there’s nothing to break up that wind before it hits your roofline. It’s like the storm gets a running start from the next county over, and your shingles are the first thing in its way.

The real kicker is the timing. Our worst season runs from late March through June, but I’ve seen rogue hail in October and even February. The problem is these storms don’t follow a schedule—they’ll build up in the afternoon when the heat peaks, and by evening you’ve got a wall of black clouds rolling in from the southwest. Your roof takes a double hit: first the hail bruises and cracks the shingles, then the wind peels back the edges and lifts them like playing cards. Once that granule layer is knocked off, the sun does the rest, baking the mat until it’s brittle. So it’s not just one storm that does you in—it’s the fact that we get three or four of these beatings a year, and each one weakens the roof a little more until you’re looking at leaks you can’t trace.