For four straight days the story barely changed — the High Plains getting cored by hail. June 25th finally flipped the script. The count eased to 105 reports, the ice handed the lead back to wind (59 gusts to 43 stones), and the whole show slid south off the plains and onto the Texas and Oklahoma caprock.
The number that jumps off the page is a 110 mph gust at Slaton, just southeast of Lubbock. That isn't a gusty-thunderstorm reading — that's a wind that strips shingles in sheets, peels back metal edges, and turns a loose trampoline into the neighbor's problem two yards over. Texas logged 19 reports behind it, nearly all wind, with Wyoming running its own 16-gust wind day up north around Federal.
The hail didn't quit, it just relocated. The day's biggest stone, 2.5 inches, came down at Boise City out in the Oklahoma panhandle — well past the size where a roof claim is a real conversation. And for once it wasn't only a Plains thing: tidy little hail pockets popped up far from the action — 1.75-inch stones in Ohio near Lisbon, Michigan at Emmett, and Utah around Salt Lake. If you're nowhere near Texas and figured this one missed you, look anyway.
Wind plays a different game than hail, and homeowners read it wrong all the time. Hail hides up top until a leak finds you months later; wind shows its hand at the edges — lifted shingle tabs, a creased ridge, flashing pulled back at a corner. You can catch some of it from the yard if you know where to look, but 110 mph doesn't leave subtle damage, and the back slope you can't see from the driveway is exactly where it starts to go. Get eyes on the whole roof, not just the street side.
For the crews, the gas money this time is the Slaton–Lubbock wind corridor and the Boise City panhandle hail — tight and fresh — with the Ohio and Michigan stones worth a swing if they landed in your backyard. The season-long picture of where the big ice keeps falling stays on the Top States for Hail board. Everybody else — the state-by-state breakdown is below; find your row and see what the day actually put down where you live.