Purdon Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you straight up—Purdon gets hammered in a way folks from Dallas just don’t understand. We sit right in that little corridor where the warm, wet air from the Gulf bumps into the cooler dry air rolling off the plains, and that collision is a recipe for trouble. When those spring storms fire up, usually March through May, they don’t just give us a sprinkle. They spin up these tight, fast-moving supercells that drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger, and the wind isn’t a straight-line blow either—it comes in these violent, twisting gusts that can peel shingles right off a roof like they’re nothing. The geography here, with all the open farmland and low rolling hills, gives the wind nothing to break it up, so it just screams across the fields and hits your house at full force.

And it’s not just the spring. We get a second nasty round in the late summer and early fall, usually September and October, when those dying tropical systems push up from the coast. They’re tired by the time they get here, but they still pack a punch, and they stall right over Navarro County sometimes. That’s when you get the slow, soaking rain combined with wind that just won’t quit, which is a killer for any roof that’s got a weak spot or a loose tab. The real problem is that hail here isn’t just a few dings—it’s that big, jagged stuff that hits at an angle, bruising the shingle mat and knocking the granules off, which leaves your roof exposed to the sun and the next storm. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but up close they were just peppered with soft spots, and then one good wind gust comes along and takes half the shingles with it. You’re not just dealing with a storm here; you’re dealing with a pattern, and if your roof isn’t built for it, you’re going to be calling me sooner rather than later.