Throckmorton Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I tell every homeowner in Throckmorton, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye for some of the nastiest weather in North Texas. It’s not just bad luck—it’s our geography. We’re out here on the open, flat prairie with nothing but miles of ranchland between us and the caprock. When those spring storms roll in from the southwest, they get a clear, unobstructed run at us, and they pick up speed like a freight train with no hills or trees to break them up. That’s when you get those supercell thunderstorms that just park right over the county and drop hail the size of golf balls, sometimes even baseballs, for twenty minutes straight. And because we’re so far from the big cities, the storms don’t weaken—they just sit here and pound the same rooftops over and over.

Then you’ve got the wind, which is honestly just as bad as the hail. In the spring and early summer, we get those violent outflow boundaries and straight-line winds that can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour without warning. A lot of folks don’t realize that a roof can survive a direct hail hit but still get shredded by the wind that follows it—lifting shingles, peeling back flashing, and driving rain right into the decking. And in the fall, we get those cold fronts that clash with the leftover summer heat, creating those sudden, violent squall lines that blow through at night. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but once I got up there, the wind had loosened every tab, and the hail had bruised the shingles so bad they were ready to crumble. It’s just the nature of living out here—you’re not just dealing with one storm a year, you’re dealing with a whole season of them, and your roof takes the brunt of every single one.