Owasso Roofing and Storm Damage Repair
Owasso's storm surveys read like a street map: Mingo Road, 76th Street North, Highway 169. The wind keeps coming back to the same corners.
The June 2023 Wind Event
On June 17, 2023, a 75 knot thunderstorm crossed Owasso, roughly 86 miles an hour, and the survey records that it "snapped multiple large trees." A second record from the same afternoon, at 65 knots, put a power pole and power lines down on Mingo Road. Less than two months later, on August 13, 2023, another 65 knot storm came through and snapped large limbs across a stretch from Highway 169 to N 145th E Avenue.
Two damaging wind storms in one Owasso summer is the detail worth holding onto. A roof that lost its shingle seals in June and looked fine afterward was already loosened when the August storm arrived. The second storm does not have to be as strong as the first to finish the job.
At 86 miles an hour, the June storm was also past the point of lifting shingle edges. Large trees snap rather than bend at that speed, and a trunk or limb that lands on a roof goes through the decking, not just the shingles. If a tree came down near your Owasso house that day, the roof within its reach deserves a closer look than a glance from the ground.
The wider record says the same thing over a longer span: 37 significant events at the Owasso reporting point between 2016 and 2026, and judging by the surveys, wind rather than hail did the worst of it.
Along the Mingo Valley Corridor
The Mingo Valley Expressway, US-169, is Owasso's main commercial corridor, and it shows up in the storm record directly. The August 13, 2023 survey describes a 65 knot storm that "snapped numerous large tree limbs from Highway 169 to N 145th E Avenue and E 76th Street N." That is not one yard. It is a swath running out from the town's main commercial corridor.
The shops, offices and restaurants along a highway corridor commonly sit under low-slope or flat roofs with rooftop equipment, and wind does particular damage to that kind of roof. It works at the edges first, peeling back the metal edge trim and the membrane under it, and loose debris blown off nearby trees ends up in the drains. A membrane that has started to lift at one corner can be pulled back much further by the next storm.
If you own or lease a building along the Mingo Valley corridor, the inspection starts at the roof edge, the drains and the curbs around rooftop units, not out in the middle. We do commercial roof repair and flat and low-slope roofing, scheduled so your doors stay open while we work.
From Elm Creek to Owasso
Owasso began in 1881 as the Elm Creek settlement, in the Cooweescoowee District of the Cherokee Nation. It took the name Owasso on January 24, 1900, and was platted and incorporated in 1904. Where the name itself comes from, the sources we checked do not say, and we would rather leave it there than repeat a guess.
What is certain is the size. Owasso counted 38,299 people at the 2020 Census, which makes it the third-largest of the eighteen Oklahoma towns we cover, behind only Tulsa and Broken Arrow.
Along Mingo and 76th Street North
One stretch of Owasso turns up in the storm record more than any other, and it is worth describing street by street.
Mingo Road, south of E 76th Street N
On June 17, 2023, the 65 knot storm "blew down a power pole and power lines on Mingo Road, south of E 76th Street N." When wind takes a power pole down, it is pushing hard on everything in its path, and the roofs on the streets around that stretch of Mingo took the same gusts. Damage like that rarely shows from the road: what an inspection looks for is shingles that lifted and failed to reseal, and ridge caps that worked loose. Where power lines come in over the roof, it should also check whether the service mast or its flashing was pulled when the lines went down.
E 76th Street N, twice in one summer
E 76th Street N is named in two different surveys two months apart: the June 17 power lines on Mingo, and the August 13 swath of snapped limbs reaching to N 145th E Avenue and E 76th Street N. If your house is anywhere near 76th Street North and nobody has been on the roof since summer 2023, it has had two named storms over it without a look. For an insurance claim, two dated surveys naming your own streets are about as solid as storm evidence gets.
Baptist Village
On July 14, 2016, a 65 knot storm "snapped numerous large tree limbs at Baptist Village." It is one of the few places in Owasso the surveys name outright. Large limbs coming down around buildings do two kinds of roof damage: the direct hit, and the slower kind, where branches rub and scour shingles in every wind until the mat shows through.
Up the road
We work the towns around Owasso from the same Jenks shop, including Collinsville, Sperry and Tulsa.
Hail North of Tulsa
Owasso's hail record is lighter than Tulsa's or Broken Arrow's. The reporting point logged 15 hail events of an inch or larger between 2016 and 2026, with the largest at 1.50 inches on June 18, 2019. Tulsa logged 31 over the same years, and Broken Arrow took 3.00 inch hail in May 2024.
Lighter is not the same as harmless. Hail an inch and a half across is plenty to knock granules off a shingle and bruise the mat, and fifteen events over ten years means an older Owasso roof has very likely been hit more than once. The difference is that in Owasso the wind record is the bigger story, so a hail inspection here should also check for the lifted, unsealed shingles the 2023 storms left behind. The 1.50 inch storm of June 18, 2019 is also old enough that any granule loss from it has had every summer since to turn into cracking.
Free Roof Inspection in Owasso
Owasso is about eighteen miles from our Jenks shop, and the inspection costs nothing. If you are near Mingo Road or 76th Street North, it is worth having after 2023.