Storm Damage to a Roof in Weatherford, TX

Back to 2023, and no further. Storms crossed this county for a long time before that and none of them show up here, which is why the year your own shingles went on matters more than any single date on the list.

Not on its own, no. Parker County is wide and hail comes through in narrow lanes, so one street can take a beating while the next one over comes through untouched. The reports that name Weatherford are the closest thing to a local answer there is. Even those mark the spot where a person stood and measured a stone. The roof repair page covers what that work involves once a stone has found your street.

Straight-line wind, the National Weather Service said, not a tornado. March 2, 2023 brought 70 mph winds and quarter-size hail across the county, with wind reports at Weatherford itself of 70 and 75 mph. Copper paneling was ripped off the city hall roof here in town. Wind like that peels and lifts shingles much the way a weak tornado does, so what mattered to a roof was the speed, not the label. If you are matching a date to your own roof: March 2 was the wind night. The hail came two weeks later, on March 16, and that is the storm the list above calls March 2023.

No. The EF-1 confirmed that night came down about five miles west-northwest of town, with peak winds of 110 mph, and a weaker EF-0 came down southwest of town the same evening. Roofs were pulled off houses in a neighborhood northwest of downtown. A survey track is not a damage boundary, though, and wind that close reaches town. If a date on the list lines up with the age of your roof, how a roof claim moves covers the next step.

Most of what reaches this record is an inch across or bigger, about the width of a quarter. Smaller stones fall across this county most springs and rarely trouble a sound shingle, though season after season of them will scrub the granules off a roof that is already near the end of its run.