Winds a-blowin' and the temp feels great.

JobSecurity said:

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Got some bigguns in Katy

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Are you near Nottingham Country? We got some in NC but heard north of Kingsland had it really bad.

Almost 2" around Kingsland. I10 near Lowe's/HEB/Kohls area got some really nasty stuff. "Egg sized"

Some of it had spikes on it!

Jason_InfinityRoofer said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Got some bigguns in Katy

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Yep. I think I'm about to get worked across three cities. It was a pretty wide hail swath for this area.

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Hey bro where do you access these maps? I've been looking for a public site with this. I see you're a roofer so maybe you have a paid subscription?

This rain - it's a little punk *****

Yeah, we have to pay for access to them. They have to be used in conjunction with real time reports. For me, I use them for generalization and then talk to customers in real life and look at the roof to validate them. Some of my customers with the worst damage are in areas that are in the fringes of those maps. The noob roofers will chase those hotspots which can be good but sometimes not. Either way, someone is going to annoy you because of then. That's kind of why I mostly switched to referral systems instead. But I digress….

I am not aware of any free services for this however, here are some good and often better options:

1. If you have an area you want a map on, shoot me an email and I'll grab it and send it to you.

2. RadarScope is an app for weather that often integrates mPING reports from folks like me…

3. mPING app allows users like you and Me to send real time actual reports of what we see with weather and uses our phone location to tag so, if I was at Lowe's and you were at kohls across the street we could each send our eyewitness hail size estimate in.

The second two options are free, and I THINK the free RadarScope option will overlay that stuff.

My maps are validated with real time data if it's available but often it's based on an algorithm that determines size from radar signatures.

The image is RadarScope. I pay for a step above free on this but the free one might give you this, I'm not sure though. The circles are all real time human provided hail reports. So, if I click on one, it will tell me the size reported. That data is from mPING.


That was probably more info than you wanted but that's just what I do.

Hail up at my church in Montgomery too yesterday evening

Jason_InfinityRoofer said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Got some bigguns in Katy

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Yep. I think I'm about to get worked across three cities. It was a pretty wide hail swath for this area.

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Probably going to hit you up. house is in the orange and really close to the red spot on that map.

Jason_InfinityRoofer said:

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Yeah, we have to pay for access to them. They have to be used in conjunction with real time reports. For me, I use them for generalization and then talk to customers in real life and look at the roof to validate them. Some of my customers with the worst damage are in areas that are in the fringes of those maps. The noob roofers will chase those hotspots which can be good but sometimes not. Either way, someone is going to annoy you because of then. That's kind of why I mostly switched to referral systems instead. But I digress….

I am not aware of any free services for this however, here are some good and often better options:

1. If you have an area you want a map on, shoot me an email and I'll grab it and send it to you.

2. RadarScope is an app for weather that often integrates mPING reports from folks like me…

3. mPING app allows users like you and Me to send real time actual reports of what we see with weather and uses our phone location to tag so, if I was at Lowe's and you were at kohls across the street we could each send our eyewitness hail size estimate in.

The second two options are free, and I THINK the free RadarScope option will overlay that stuff.

My maps are validated with real time data if it's available but often it's based on an algorithm that determines size from radar signatures.

The image is RadarScope. I pay for a step above free on this but the free one might give you this, I'm not sure though. The circles are all real time human provided hail reports. So, if I click on one, it will tell me the size reported. That data is from mPING.


That was probably more info than you wanted but that's just what I do.

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Thanks man. I'm a meteorologist and have a premium RadarScope subscription. I get a lot of friends asking for hail reports but all I can do is check archived SPC storm reports and those hail swaths as best as possible to match them. I'll send you an email with a question regarding two particular addresses. Thanks!

Yeah that looks pretty accurate based on what I've heard from friends and neighbors. I was in the orange. We didn't have a ton that were that big, maybe 10-15, and the rest were smaller.

Are a handful of hits from hail that big enough to warrant a roof inspection? Should I talk to insurance first or just have somebody take a look

Moved to Cypress two years ago from DFW. Question for weather people, why does it seem so hard to predict weather here? Seems like more often than compared to up there, what is predicted and what happens don't jive. If you got a 75+% chance in north Texas, you would get something. Here, they will say 90% and get nothing or say 20% and get 5 inches.

If I'm not mistaken, forecasts are done more or less by county. Harris County is 2x as large as Dallas County. We also have the gulf which introduces more variability.

Just 2 reasons.

JobSecurity said:

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Yeah that looks pretty accurate based on what I've heard from friends and neighbors. I was in the orange. We didn't have a ton that were that big, maybe 10-15, and the rest were smaller.

Are a handful of hits from hail that big enough to warrant a roof inspection? Should I talk to insurance first or just have somebody take a look

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Yes. It warrants inspection. But, be prepared for the result of that inspection. Shoot me an email and I can talk to you more about it. If I have a few Texags folks that need inspections, I'll make a day or two of it. I have project managers there, but for my Texags folks, I personally prefer to handle everything. We are based in Houston off of Groeschke Road. Local.

I also give referral bonuses, personally, for installed roofs. It's not a huge gimmicky thing like some companies do. It's just a simple Venmo or check to say "thank you" after the job is paid in full.

Email sent

Sounds good.

Jason_InfinityRoofer said:

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Sounds good.

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is this a good storm to get insurance involved in for a new roof? asking for a friend

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Travis Herzog was saying like 6" for most of the city depending where the front tomorrow lines up. Locally 12" possible

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I stopped following Travis because he tends to be to doom and gloom. As we saw today, he was off a significant amount.

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Yeah dude a lot of nothing so far. I wish I could be wrong 95% of the time at my job and still be awesome at it hah. We will see tonight

Up in CStat today, as the kids call it these days, now they have gotten a lot of rain it seems. Looks like this boundary line is stalling out here.

Some of the local guys realized what was happening and shifted to try and be more like Space City, but from what I could see, Travis consistently goes for the worst-case scenario, even if it's a long shot.

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Hey bro where do you access these maps? I've been looking for a public site with this.

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https://mrms.nssl.noaa.gov/qvs/product_viewer/
hail/lightning -> hail swath (#hours to display)

Can do the same things with storm rotation. Doesn't mean an actual tornado on the ground, but can see the likely track if there was one: Rotation -> low level (# hours to display)

Loud close blast just knocked my power off again.

Lightning Tracker app is lit up all over the Houston area.

It's silly how easy the power blinks during a storm.

I didn't get ****-all down here. A measly 0.3 inches for a two day total.

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I was flying into bush tonight and got a video of lightning destroying something. These are screen caps

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Pretty damn cool shots. I was in Tinseltown off 290 with my brother watching "Air" around that time and it sounded like WWIII outside for pretty much the entire second half of the movie.

Up at Lake Kingwood, we're at 2.5" over the past 2 days.

I've had almost 5 inches over the last 3 days in New Territory in Sugar Land. Some of the loudest thunder I've heard in a long time. I hit hail in Rosenberg and had to pull under a gas station pump cover for about 10 minutes.