Reagan Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Reagan doesn’t get lucky when it comes to spring storms. We sit right in that corridor where the dry, hot air off the Edwards Plateau slams into the moist Gulf flow coming up from the southeast. That collision doesn’t just brew a little rain—it stacks up supercell thunderstorms that roll through with marble-to-baseball-sized hail and straight-line winds that can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour. The geography here is wide open, too. There’s no hill or tree line to break up that wind, so it just screams across the flat farmland and catches your roof at full force, lifting shingles and driving rain right up under the edges before you even hear the first crack of thunder.

And it’s not just one bad day a year. Our severe weather season really gets going in late March and runs hard through June, but we’ve seen nasty hail as early as February and as late as October. The problem is the hail itself—it’s not those little pea-sized pellets that bounce off. We get these dense, jagged chunks that hit at an angle because of the wind, and they bruise the shingles, knock the granules off, and leave little divots you can’t see from the ground. Then the next hot Texas sun bakes those weakened spots, and before you know it, you’ve got cracks and leaks that show up months later. I tell folks all the time: if you’ve lived here more than five years and haven’t had to file a claim, you’re the exception, not the rule. It’s just the price of living in this beautiful, wild part of the state.