Storm Damage in Murphy, TX
Storm damage to a roof in Murphy usually turns up a good while after the storm that caused it.
Your roof can look fine from the driveway and still have lost something. Our roofers hand you dated photographs before you decide anything.
What storms have done to Collin County
The record below is kept by county, so it says what came through this corner of Collin County and not what landed on your street. It is a starting point for dating a storm, and it is honest about being nothing more than that.
2.25″ hen-egg-sized
PARKER and nearby.
2.75″ baseball-sized
BIGGERS and nearby.
2.50″ tennis-ball-sized
ALLEN and nearby.
3″ tea-cup-sized
PLANO and nearby.
Was your Murphy roof under any of these? Hail and wind damage is often invisible from the ground, so a free look soon after a storm is worth it.
Get a Free Storm Inspection →Storm data: NOAA / NCEI Storm Events Database, Collin County, TX 2023–2026. Updated July 2026.
Check whether a storm reached your Murphy address
Put in a date and the checker says whether it falls inside a window when hail was reported nearby. It cannot tell you your roof was hit, and it does not try to.
Hail that fell a dozen miles from your street can still be your storm, and the check reaches that far. Storm data: NOAA / NCEI, Collin County.
Signs a Murphy roof took damage in the storm
A roof can come through a bad night looking the same from the driveway and still have lost something up top. A storm that reached your street usually leaves you something you can spot without getting on a ladder. Wind leaves a different mark than hail does, and once you can tell the two apart you're most of the way to knowing which day did it.
A tab that lifted and laid back down
Wind creases a shingle without carrying it off, and by the time you're looking at it the tab has settled back into place. The seal underneath doesn't come back, though, so the next hard blow tends to take that tab further.
Pieces of shingle in the yard
Asphalt that's gone brittle snaps at the edges instead of bending, and you'll turn the bits up in the beds and along the fence line. Something up there let go, whatever the roof looks like to you from the ground.
A ridge line that reads uneven
Cap shingles run along the peak and meet the wind before anything else up there does. If it looks wavy to you from the street, that's worth saying out loud when somebody comes to look.
A vent or pipe boot sitting crooked
Those pieces stand proud of the shingles and catch wind that the flat surfaces shrug off. Once one's been turned, you've got a way in for water that has nothing to do with the shingles around it.
A ceiling mark that wasn't there last month
Water runs along the framing before it finds somewhere to drop, so the patch you're looking at usually sits some way off from whatever let it in. It's still the clearest evidence you'll get that something opened up.
Daylight in the attic
Turn the light off up there and you'll see gaps nothing else shows you, particularly around vents and where two planes of roof meet. Anywhere light's getting through, water's already had its chance.
The days after a Murphy storm
What you write down and photograph in the first day or two is what anybody has to work from months later. Which storm did what is our roofers' side of this, and they work it out with the county's own dates in front of them. What they find comes back to you as an itemized estimate at no charge, before there's any talk of work.
The day it came through
Write the date down while it's still obvious to you, because that one line ties anything found later to a particular storm. The county's record carries its own dates, and matching yours against one of them does most of the work for you.
Before you tidy the yard
Get pictures of what came down and what it landed on, and put something ordinary beside a hailstone so the size reads. The yard is the half of the evidence that's safely yours to collect, and a phone gets closer to it than anybody gets to a roof.
If water's coming inside
Photograph the wet first, then get the opening covered so the damage stops spreading. Most policies expect you to stop a loss getting worse and cover what that costs you, so a tarp helps your position instead of hurting it.
Once the weather has passed
A look while the evidence is fresh settles what changed on this roof and what was already there. You'll get the work listed line by line with a price against each, and what you do about it after that stays on your clock.
What neighbors ask after a storm
Have a Murphy roof checked after a storm
Nobody prices a roof off a description, so the look comes first. Send the day the storm came through and whatever you've noticed since, and you'll see what it turned up before any of it becomes work.