Leming Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Leming gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that corridor between San Antonio and the coast where the warm, humid Gulf air slams into the cooler dry fronts rolling down from the Hill Country. That collision is a recipe for supercell thunderstorms, and they don’t just pass through—they stall and spin right over us. When those storms drop hail, it’s not the little pea-sized stuff; we routinely see golf ball to baseball sized stones, and the wind that comes with it can gust past 70 or 80 miles an hour. The problem is our flat, open terrain—there’s nothing to break up that wind, so it hits your roofline like a freight train with no trees or hills to slow it down.

And the timing is the sneaky part. Most people think we only have to worry in the spring, but our severe weather season stretches from March all the way through June, and then we get a second nasty round in the fall, especially October. That’s when the jet stream dips back down and those dry lines fire up again. I’ve seen brand new shingle roofs shredded in one twenty-minute storm, and the worst part is the damage isn’t always obvious from the ground. The hail bruises the shingles, cracking the granules, and the wind lifts the edges just enough to let water sneak in—then you don’t find out until the next big rain, and by then the decking’s rotten and you’re looking at interior damage. That’s why I always tell my neighbors here in Leming: if you hear that hail pinging off your gutters, don’t wait for the insurance adjuster to call you—get me up there to look within a week, because this area doesn’t give you a grace period.