Pointblank Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Pointblank sits right in the bullseye for some of the nastiest weather in the state. We’re tucked into that transition zone where the humid Gulf air comes rolling up from the coast and collides with the dry, hot air sweeping down from the Hill Country. That clash doesn’t just brew a summer thunderstorm—it stacks the atmosphere like a loaded spring, and when it lets go, we get those massive, rotating supercells that drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger. It’s not a once-in-a-while thing either; from late March through June, and again in the fall, these systems roll through with alarming regularity, and they don’t just pass over—they stall and pound the same few square miles for twenty minutes at a time.

What makes it even worse for your roof is the geography itself. We’re surrounded by all that thick piney woods and rolling terrain, which breaks up the wind’s direction and creates a funneling effect right over the neighborhoods. A straight-line wind might hit a house in Huntsville and just push against it, but here, the gusts get twisted and accelerated as they come over the treeline, slamming shingles from two different angles at once. That’s why you’ll see one side of a roof completely shredded while the other looks fine—the hail is coming in sideways on that wind, and the granules get scoured off like sandpaper. I’ve pulled shingles off homes in this area that looked like they’d been shot with a shotgun, and it’s almost always because the storm hit us at that perfect, ugly angle that only Pointblank’s layout can produce.