Quanah Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in this part of North Texas for over twenty years, and I can tell you Quanah gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right on the edge of the Caprock, and that sudden rise in elevation acts like a ramp for spring storms. When those supercells roll in from the southwest, they’ll barrel across the flatlands and then get squeezed and spun up as they hit that escarpment. That’s when you get those tight, rotating updrafts that can hold hail aloft long enough to grow into golf-ball or even baseball-sized stones. And because we’re so wide open with hardly any trees or hills to break the wind, those same storms will drop straight-line gusts of 70 or 80 miles an hour right onto your ridge line. It’s not a matter of if, but when, one of those April or May squall lines will catch you.

The other thing people forget is that our storm season isn’t just one month—it stretches from late March all the way into June, and then we get a second round of violent thunderstorms in the fall, usually October. That’s a long window where your shingles are sitting ducks. I’ve seen hail here that’s not just round—it’s jagged and icy, like frozen rocks with sharp edges, and when that comes down at a slant with a 60 mph wind behind it, it doesn’t just bruise the asphalt. It tears the granules right off, exposes the mat, and then the next hot 105-degree day cooks that spot until it cracks. And the wind? It’ll lift the edge of a shingle that’s already been loosened by hail, and then the next gust peels it back like a sardine can lid. That’s why I always tell my customers in Quanah: you don’t wait for the leak to show up in the living room. You get up on that roof after the first big storm, or you call me, because by the time you see water stains, the decking’s already rotten and the whole shebang’s got to come off.