Emergency Roof Repair Underway After Amarillo, Texas Panhandle Suffer Devastating High Wind & Hail Damage on Sunday, May 1, 2022

High winds and ice the size of baseballs left a wake of property damage in Amarillo and across the Texas Panhandle on Sunday, May 1st. RestoreMasters issued an alert to every available roofing contractor to lend support as property owners require immediate roof leak repair before another storm rolls through the region.

According to ABC 7 News, multiple reports of baseball-sized ice stones caused widespread hail property damage to rooftops, siding, and automobile windshields. Although the highest intensity segments of the hail and windstorms narrowly missed downtown Amarillo, the surrounding area took devastation from both high winds and large ice strikes.

“A semi was also blown over along I-40 where winds gusted between 70-86 mph. A wind gust of 86 mph was observed by a west Texas mesonet site 15 miles NW of downtown Amarillo as this storm moved through Bishop Hills where additional baseball size hail was reported,” ABC 7 News reported. “Several reports of baseball size hail were noted in Hereford, Texas, which caused widespread damage in town. Winds and siding on homes were destroyed by those wind-driven hailstones, and there were several power lines blown over as well.”

A local hailstorm damage map shows multiple hailstorms overlapping each other and battering communities. The yellow sections highlight ice up to 1.25 inches in diameter, pelting places such as south Dalhart along Highway 87 and Washburn to the east of Amarillo. The orange bands indicate hail upwards of 1.75 inches around, with the darker orange showing ice as large as 2.5 inches striking residential and commercial roofs. But the purple clusters indicate hail larger than baseballs hammered neighborhoods and business centers outside Amarillo, inflicting the worst hail property damage on Sunday, May 1st, and overnight into Monday morning.

Some roofing systems can be severely harmed by damage from heavy winds, tornadoes, or hail.

Winds as low as 50 mph can cause some older roofs to be damaged.

The severity of roof damage depends on several factors including: type and age of roofing materials, presence of flying debris, roof shape and angle, building height and proximity to adjacent structures and the quality of original roof installation.

After a severe storm of hail or high winds, it is important to get your roof inspected, and have a property damage assessment report so that you can learn whether you have damage to your roofing system.

In situations where you’ve got a leaking roof, experienced disaster roofing contractors can stop the leaks temporarily, by laying tarp or by using a durable shrink-wrap plastic membrane in the affected areas, or even over the entire roof. This will keep your building protected until permanent repairs can take place. This will help prevent mold infestation from water leaks.

Even if you don’t think your roof was damaged, you will want to get your roof inspected if your property falls anywhere within the hail damage map.

Many storm damage symptoms are not always evident immediately.

And insurance companies can require you to get a claim in before their deadline.

Emergency response crews are available to assist commercial property owners with roof damage, frozen pipe damage, siding and window damage, and turnkey restoration services.

We provide services to clients of all types, with hail or wind damage to tile roofing, such as: hospitals, medical facilities, churches, schools, colleges & universities, museums, condos, hotels, warehouses, resorts, retail properties, historical properties, industrial properties, and residential properties.

If your building has sustained harm from fallen trees, collapsed roof or any other damage related to hail, tornado or wind storms, call us today.

RestoreMasters is a disaster restoration contractor, providing storm damage restoration from hail, tornadoes, fire and flood, responding to emergencies in disaster situations, by aiding with repair of commercial and industrial roofing, tile roofs, providing temporary solutions to cover damaged roofs with tarp or shrink wrap.

We also provide clean up of storm debris, water damage cleanup, frozen pipe burst cleanup, restoration after water damage, mold remediation, tornado damage roofing & restoration, hurricane damage roofing & restoration, interior restoration and construction and much more. We also provide fire damage cleanup & restoration.

Contact RestoreMasters if you need help fixing storm damage.

Our team, comprised of large loss claims experts works directly with your insurance company to help get your business back into operation again as soon as possible.

We provide all aspects of building restoration, from emergency response services and cleanup to total build back of your facility.

The RestoreMasters team is comprised of professionals specializing in storm damage insurance restoration, including: insurance claims experts, public adjusters, large loss attorneys, roofing engineers, building engineers, interior construction experts, and other experts in the field of damage restoration.

We provide the following roofing services: TPO roofing repair, metal roofing replacement, tile roofing hail & wind damge repair, slate roofing replacement, asphalt shingle roofing repair from tornado damage, EPDM roofing restoration, roof coatings, torch down roofing, BUR roofing replacement, SBS-modified roofing repair, PVC roofing restoration.

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