Kendalia Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Kendalia gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that Hill Country corridor where the weather systems roll in from the southwest, and the geography just funnels those spring storms straight over us. When the warm, humid air from the Gulf collides with the cooler air dropping down from the Edwards Plateau, it doesn’t just rain—it explodes. Those supercell thunderstorms love to form right along that boundary, and they’ll drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger before you can even get the car in the garage. It’s not a once-in-a-while thing either; every single spring, from March through May, we see at least two or three nasty hailers that’ll shred a composition shingle like it’s paper.

And it’s not just the hail—it’s the wind that comes with it. Because we’re on that open, rolling terrain with all those live oaks and cedar breaks, the wind doesn’t have anything to slow it down. It’ll come screaming through the valleys and across the ridgelines at sixty, seventy miles an hour, and that’s when you see shingles lifted right off the deck. The real problem is the combination: hail knocks the granules loose and weakens the mat, then the wind gets under those edges and peels them back like a sardine can. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but up close they’re just a mess of cracked, bruised shingles that are one good gust away from leaking. If you’ve got a roof that’s older than ten years, or if you’ve ever had a tree branch tap it during a storm, you’re playing with fire out here. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.