Kemp Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Kemp doesn’t get lucky when it comes to spring storms. We sit right in that corridor where the dry, hot air from the west slams into the humid Gulf moisture rolling up from the coast, and that collision is a recipe for trouble. That usually starts cranking up in late March and runs straight through June, and again in the fall. When those supercells fire up, they don’t just give us a sprinkle—they drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger, and the wind comes in straight-line gusts that can peel shingles right off the deck. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get hit, but *when*, and I’ve seen brand-new roofs look like someone took a shotgun to them after a single twenty-minute pass.

What makes it worse is the geography around here. We’ve got all that open farmland and rolling pasture to the west and south, so there’s nothing to break up the wind before it hits your ridge line. A storm can build up speed for fifty miles across flat ground and then just unload on your house with zero warning. Plus, the clay soil we’ve got in Kaufman County shifts and settles with all that rain, which can cause your foundation to move just enough to put stress on the roof structure—making it more likely to flex and pop those nail heads loose during a high-wind event. So when I see a dark sky rolling in from the southwest, I already know I’m going to be busy for the next few weeks, because that’s just how it works out here.