Timpson Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in this part of East Texas for over twenty years, and I can tell you Timpson gets hammered in a way folks in Nacogdoches or even Center just don’t always see. We sit right in that weird pocket where the Piney Woods meet the open prairie, and that mix creates a funnel effect for spring storms. When those big supercells roll in from the southwest, usually March through May, they’ll spin up and tighten right over the county line. The hail we get isn’t that polite pea-sized stuff—it’s often golf ball or bigger, coming down at an angle with straight-line winds that can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour. That combination just chews up composition shingles, and if you’ve got an older roof, the granules are already loose, so it doesn’t take much to expose the mat and start leaks.

What a lot of people don’t realize is that our geography makes it worse. We’ve got all these rolling hills and tree lines that break up the wind, but that actually creates turbulence—the gusts will swirl and lift under the edges of your shingles instead of just blowing straight over. Plus, we get those sudden late-summer pop-up storms in August and September that drop an inch of rain in twenty minutes with wind that comes out of nowhere. That’s when you see the real damage: shingles peeled back at the corners, ridge caps snapped off, and sometimes even the decking exposed. If your house faces the southwest, you’re taking the brunt of every single one of those hits. I’ve walked too many driveways where the homeowner says, “It didn’t look that bad,” and then I find hail dings on the gutters and soft spots under the felt. It’s just the nature of living here—you’re not being paranoid, you’re just in the bullseye.