One impressive demonstration of the durability of solar panels is to set up a pitching machine, set the dial as high as it will go, and shoot baseballs at a panel. This shows how tough the panels are.
Wyoming gets a lot of hailstorms. And actually solar panels have done fairly well in storms with small and even moderate hail.
However few pitching machines even reach 100 mph, let alone speeds faster than 100 mph.
Sunrise's Swansong 