Stanton Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Stanton, it’s that you’re not just dealing with a storm—you’re dealing with a perfect storm. We sit right in that open stretch of West Texas where the flat, dusty plains act like a highway for supercell thunderstorms. Those big, angry clouds roll in from the southwest, usually starting in April and picking up steam through May and June, and there’s nothing to break them up. No hills, no tree lines, nothing. So when a cell hits us, it’s still carrying all its energy, and that’s when you get those marble-to-baseball-sized hailstones coming down sideways at 60 miles an hour. I’ve pulled shingles off houses here that looked like someone took a shotgun to them, and it’s not just the impact—it’s the sheer volume of ice that piles up in a matter of minutes.

And the wind? That’s the sneaky killer. We get those straight-line winds that can gust past 80 or 90 miles an hour, especially during the late spring and early summer. They’ll catch the edge of a shingle that’s already been bruised by hail, peel it back like a sardine can, and then the next rainstorm does the real damage. Plus, our soil here is that heavy, clay-heavy caliche, so when the ground gets saturated, it shifts. That movement can crack your roof deck or pop the nails loose, which makes the whole system weaker before the next storm even shows up. I tell folks all the time: in Stanton, it’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get hit, it’s a matter of *when*—and if you’ve got an older roof, you’re basically rolling the dice every time the sky turns green.