Simonton Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over fifteen years, and Simonton sits right in that sweet spot where the Gulf’s warm, muggy air collides with the cooler fronts rolling down from the Hill Country. That clash isn’t just a pretty sunset—it’s a recipe for those violent, spinning supercells that drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger. We’re not tucked behind any hills or tree lines to break the wind, either. The land is flat, open ranch country, so when a storm line comes screaming through from the southwest, it hits your roofline with zero resistance. I’ve seen 60, 70, even 80-mile-an-hour straight-line winds peel shingles right off like they were stickers, and that’s before the hail even starts pummeling the deck.

And it’s not just a one-off freak event. Our severe weather season runs a double shift—first in the spring, from March through May, when those warm and cold fronts duke it out almost weekly, and then again in the late summer and early fall when tropical moisture from the Gulf can spin up rogue storms that seem to come out of nowhere. The hail in those late-season storms is often the worst because the air is so humid and unstable that the updrafts are stronger, keeping the ice aloft longer until it gets huge and dense. Combine that with the fact that most homes here have architectural shingles that are only rated to take so much impact, and you’ve got a perfect storm—literally. If you’ve lived here a few years, you know it’s not a matter of *if* you’ll need a roof repair, but *when*. That’s just the price of living in this beautiful, wide-open part of Texas.