Leroy Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been patching roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Leroy sits right in a bullseye for some of the nastiest weather in Central Texas. We’re smack in the middle of that corridor where springtime cold fronts slam head-on into warm, humid Gulf air, and that’s when the sky turns that sickly green and the hail starts coming down like golf balls. It’s not just the size of the stones, either—it’s the wind that comes with them. Those supercell storms can whip up straight-line gusts of sixty, seventy miles an hour, and they don’t blow over the roof, they lift the shingles from the edges and peel them back like a sardine can. The geography doesn’t help, either; we’re on flat, open prairie with no hills or tree lines to break up that wind, so it just barrels across the fields and hits your roofline with the full force of a freight train.

And here’s the thing about our storm season—it’s not just one month, it’s a marathon. We get the big hail events in April and May, sure, but then again in late September and October when those fall fronts roll through, and even the occasional rogue storm in the dead of summer. That means your roof takes a beating year after year, and the damage isn’t always obvious right away. A few granule-filled gutters here, a slightly dented ridge vent there, and before you know it, those tiny hits have weakened the whole system. Then one good storm with quarter-sized hail and a 50 mph gust comes through, and it just finishes the job. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but once I got up there, the shingles were so brittle and cracked from repeated impacts that they were barely holding on. That’s why I always tell folks in Leroy—if you hear that hail pinging off your skylight, don’t wait for the next storm to call me. The weather here doesn’t give you a second chance.