Priddy Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs up here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Priddy gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that corridor where the dry west Texas air slams into the humid Gulf flow, and that collision is like throwing a match on gasoline. Every spring, usually from late March through May, those supercell storms roll in fast off the Edwards Plateau, and they don’t just rain—they drop hail the size of golf balls, sometimes bigger, with straight-line winds that’ll peel shingles off like they’re stickers. The open, flat ranchland around us gives the wind zero resistance, so it just barrels across the county line and hammers every roof in its path. I’ve seen homes on the east side of town get shredded while the west side barely gets a sprinkle, but that’s the luck of the draw—when a cell parks over the highway, it’s a total loss for anyone under it.

And it’s not just the spring. We get those surprise October and November storms, too, when the first cold front pushes down and meets the last of the warm air. That’s when you get the sideways rain and hail that sneaks up on you after you’ve already put the grill away for the season. The real kicker is the temperature swings—one day it’s 85, the next it’s 40, and that constant expansion and contraction makes your shingles brittle. So when a storm does hit, they crack instead of flex, and the wind lifts the edges right off the deck. I’ve walked too many driveways where the homeowner says, “It didn’t look that bad,” and then I show them the granule loss in the gutters and the soft spots under their feet. Bottom line: if you live in Priddy, you’re not just at risk—you’re in the bullseye, and it’s a matter of when, not if, that next big one comes through.