Munday Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Munday gets hit from a direction most folks don’t think about. We sit right in that open stretch of rolling plains between Wichita Falls and Abilene, and there’s nothing but miles of flat farmland to slow down a storm. When a supercell rolls in from the southwest—usually late March through June, and again in October—it comes screaming across that open country with no hills or tree lines to break it up. That wind doesn’t just blow; it wraps around your roofline and lifts at the edges like it’s trying to peel a lid off a can. And the hail? We get those big, jagged stones that fall almost sideways in the gusts, so they don’t just dent your shingles—they hammer the same spot over and over, knocking the granules clean off and leaving the mat exposed.

The real kicker is how our homes are built. A lot of the houses here have that low-pitch roof, maybe a 4/12 or even flatter, which is great for keeping the heat out but terrible for shedding hail. When a stone hits a steep roof, it tends to bounce off, but on a flatter pitch, it just sits there and pounds. Plus, we get those sudden microbursts—straight-line winds that can hit 80 or 90 miles an hour for just a few minutes. That’s enough to lift a shingle tab right off the nail line, and once that happens, the next rainstorm is going to find its way under and start rotting your decking. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but up close, they were riddled with soft spots and missing granule patches, all from one bad Tuesday afternoon in May. If you’ve got a roof that’s over ten years old, you’re not just at risk—you’re on borrowed time.