Moulton Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you straight up—Moulton sits right in that sweet spot where the Gulf moisture collides with the dry air coming off the Hill Country. That’s a recipe for some of the most violent spring and early summer thunderstorms you’ll find anywhere in Texas. We get these supercell storms that roll in from the southwest, and they don’t just bring rain; they bring hail the size of golf balls, sometimes bigger, and straight-line winds that can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour. The geography doesn’t help, either—we’re surrounded by open farmland and low rolling hills, so there’s nothing to break up that wind before it slams straight into your roofline. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get hit, it’s a matter of *when*.

And here’s the thing that catches a lot of folks off guard: it’s not just the big spring storms you have to worry about. We get these rogue pop-up thunderstorms in late August and September, too, when the heat is at its peak and the humidity just builds and builds until it explodes. Those can drop marble-sized hail with almost no warning, and the wind can come in these sudden, violent gusts that lift shingles right off the deck. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine after a storm, but the hail had already cracked the granules and weakened the asphalt, so six months later, a mild windstorm peels the whole thing back like a sardine can. The combination of that intense Texas sun baking your shingles all summer, then suddenly hitting them with freezing hail and hurricane-force gusts—that’s a one-two punch that just beats the life out of a roof faster than almost anywhere else I’ve worked.