Roof Repair Contractor Responds to Massive Hail Strikes in Temple, Killeen & Across Bell County, TX Tuesday, April 12, 2022

A twister ripped through Bell County, Texas, Tuesday, April 12th, with Temple, Killeen, and other communities suffering widespread damage from the high winds and massive hailstone strikes. RestoreMasters field crews are engaged in emergency roof repair efforts to prevent further losses as storms move through the region.

Early reports from The Weather Channel indicate at least 23 people were injured as winds climbed to 165 mph and struck Salado to the north of Austin. Salado suffered heavy property damage from a tornado that touched ground for more than a half-hour at about 6 pm, leaving a 13-mile path of wreckage. A dozen people required hospitalization and 63 structures sustained damage, including a pair of churches. Power lines were downed, trees uprooted, and emergency roofing crews are helping to secure commercial buildings before fast-moving rainstorms douse inventories and weaken structural supports.

The supercell also smashed automobiles, homes, and commercial buildings with hail that reached 5.5 inches in diameter. These massive ice stones rivaled the Texas record of 6.4 inches set in 2021. Extensive hail property damage is being assessed, and roof leak repair ranks among Bell County property owners’ greatest concerns.

The National Weather Service tornado damage map shows 23 reported funnel clouds devastating cities and towns across Bell County, Texas, into northwest Louisiana, including 139 high-wind incidents and 225 hail reports. A second high wind and hailstorm front also impacted states such as Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin.

Local hail damage maps show multiple overlapping storm formations across Bell County, Texas, on Tuesday, April 12th. Lone hailstorms highlighted in yellow indicate ice approximately 1-inch in diameter pelted neighborhoods as far south as Serenada and as far north as Gatesville. One-inch hail also stretched from the outskirts of Kempner to as far east as Franklin and New Baden. Larger hail fall highlighted by orange bands shows eastern Killeen sustained ice-fall the size of golf balls. Temple also was hit by ice 1.75 inches, and Salado suffered the worst roof hail damage as stones exceeding 5.5 inches made hard impacts across the area.

Severe storms, bringing hail, strong winds, or tornadoes can cause severe roof damage, by ripping off roofing systems.

Some older roofs can sustain damage from only 50 mph winds.

Roof damage can be severe or mild, depending on various factors which include: materials used on the roof, impact of debris, building height and proximity to other buildings, age, angle and shape of the roof and type of roofing.

It’s important to get a thorough roof inspection & property damage assessment following severe weather like this so that you can determine whether you have roof damage from hail or high winds.

If roof leaks do occur, an experienced disaster roofing contractor can stop leaks with tarping or shrink wrapping, where affected areas (or the entire roof) are covered with a durable shrink-wrapped plastic membrane till permanent repairs can take place. That way you can prevent mold growth from water intrusion.

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.

Some storm damage problems do not produce symptoms right away.

And insurance company deadlines could hinder your ability to file a claim later.

Emergency response crews are available to provide property owners with assistance in turnkey restoration services, as well as assistance with frozen pipe damage, window damage, siding damage, and roof damage.

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.

Give us a call today, if the building on your property recently was damaged from wind, fallen trees, hail, collapsed roof or any other storm-related damage.

We are RestoreMasters, a restoration contractor specializing in wind & hail damage roofing, providing storm damage restoration services including: disaster response, commercial and industrial roofing, tile roof repair, emergency roof repair with tarp or shrink wrap, debris cleanup, water removal, pipe burst cleanup, water damage restoration, tornado damage roofing & restoration.

In addition to that, we respond to disaster situations with: hurricane damage roofing & restoration, mold remediation, interior restoration and construction, windows & doors, and other services to rebuild your property. We also provide fire damage restoration.

Contact RestoreMasters if you need assistance with storm damage repair.

Our team of large loss insurance claim experts works directly with your insurance company to get your facility back to pre-storm condition.

We are a turnkey restoration contractor providing help with all phases of restoration from emergency cleanup services to complete build back of your property.

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 repair, replacement and restoration services due to tornado damage and hurricane damage for the following roofing systems: TPO roofing, metal roofing, tile roofing, slate roofing, asphalt shingle roofing, EPDM roofing, roof coatings, torch down roofing, BUR roofing, SBS-modified roofing, PVC roofing.

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