Hail Damage Blog

We have gotten a good confirmation of hail stones capable of producing damage in Blanchard, LA. This storm was reported to have contained one inch hail but as you can see in the pictures, there was lots of hail up to 2" and we all know that stuff will leave hail dents in cars and some serious hail damage on roofs. Check out the pics yourself here, here, here and here.

If you don't know, Blanchard is a suburb of Shreveport, Louisiana. It is a few miles to the North and has a decent amount of population. This report goes well with the report of golfball hail in Shreveport but I haven't been able to confirm that one yet. But, if it's there, I'll let you know about it with another hail damage confirmation post.

Labels: Louisiana Hail Damage, Lousiana hail damage reports

There are a lot of reports of hail storm damage starting to come in from east Texas and North Louisiana including the Gilmer, Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana areas. At this point it is really hard to get any good information out of the area because there are almost constant tornado warnings being issued and that is just about all the local news stations are reporting on.

I did find a page of locally submitted weather images that show quite a bit of good damaging size hail stones. Unfortunately, no one told these folks to label their pictures with the location, so we don't have any idea where most of them are from. You can check out the gallery by clicking here.

Grand Saline, TX

Judging by the pics in the above gallery, it looks like there should be some damage in the Grand Saline, TX area.

Shreveport, LA

This is absolute speculation at this point and I hesitate to post it here but I will as long as everyone understands that it's purely a guess. Going off of the reports I'm reading and the images I've been able to find of the hail stones from these storms, It really looks like there is a good chance that the north side of the Shreveport, Lousiana metro area has a decent amount of hail damage. That part of town is widely varied in the demographics of the neighborhoods. Some of the subdivisions are very luxurious and some of the neighborhoods are actually 'hoods. Seriously, if you are checking this area out, be careful what you wander into.

If you decide to chase this storm this evening, be sure to be careful out there. There are several reports of trees and telephone poles down across the highways especially I-20 near the Loisiana - Texas state line.

I wont be running on this storm but I will be monitoring it closely to see how it develops. One thing is for sure, there will almost certainly be a lot of hail damaged cars out of this storm as well as a bunch of roof hail damage on houses all across the east Texas and North Louisiana area. It also looks like the hail damage area may easily stretch into Oklahoma and South Arkansas before the night is over.

Labels: Louisiana Hail Damage, Lousiana hail damage reports, Texas hail damage reports

This hail damage confirmation report is a but of a mixed bag because, while it does contain some actual confirmations, it also is going to report about a lack of information at all concerning other hail reports. I was able to find some images of some of the hail that fell in Louisiana here. The towns with confirmed hail damage reports are;

Longville, Louisiana

Ragley, Louisiana

Unfortunately, I have not been able to turn up any kind of confirmation at all for the hail damage reports out of Eunice, Louisiana or Franklin, Louisiana. I have been able to find a lot of information about a storm that hit Franklin but it is all talking about heavy wind or tornado damage there is not any mention or photos of hail damage at all.

The towns that have been confirmed for damaging hail are pretty small and would hardly warrant a trip by themselves but if you are headed over to run the Texas hail damage north of Houston, it might be worth checking out.

That's all of the hail damage report confirmations I have for now but I will be posting some random information I have picked up through a few conversations and emails with several people out there running the roads. So check back soon for some more hail damage confirmations and info.

Labels: Hail Damage, hail damage report confirmations, hail reports, Louisiana Hail Damage