Kansas City Hail Storms 2025-2026, Date by Date

NOAA's Storm Events Database lists eight hail days in the seven-county Kansas City metro from January 2025 through June 2026. The two with the most reports were May 19, 2025, with 35 reports up to 2.50 inches, and March 10, 2026, with 33 reports up to 3.00 inches. The official database currently runs through June 25, 2026, so storms after that date are not listed yet.

Below is every one of those days: the part of the day it hit, how many reports came in, the largest hail reported and the counties named. Then where to read more for your area, and what to do if your car was under one of them.

How to read this list

A few things make the list easier to use.

• The source. Every line comes from NOAA's Storm Events Database, filtered to hail reports in Kansas and Missouri.
• The metro. Seven counties: Johnson, Wyandotte and Leavenworth in Kansas; Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass in Missouri.
• A report. One observation: one place, one time, one hail size. One storm usually produces many reports, so the count says how widely hail was measured, not how many cars were hit.
• The size. The largest single report that day, in inches. On the National Weather Service chart, 1.00 inch is a quarter, 1.25 inches a half dollar, 1.75 inches a golf ball, 2.50 inches a tennis ball and 2.75 inches a baseball. The Weather Service calls a storm severe once its hail reaches 1 inch.
• The time. NOAA logs times in Central Standard Time all year, so we give the part of the day in local clock time instead of an exact hour.
• The gap. Storms after June 25, 2026 are not in the official database yet. A missing storm is not proof there was no hail.

Here are the days.

2025 hail days in the Kansas City metro

• April 1, 2025, late evening: 3 reports, up to 1.25 inches, in Jackson County, Missouri.
• May 19, 2025, afternoon: 35 reports, up to 2.50 inches, in Clay, Jackson and Platte counties in Missouri, and Johnson and Leavenworth counties in Kansas. Our Liberty hail repair page covers this storm in detail.
• July 11, 2025: 1 report, 1.00 inch, in Jackson County, Missouri.
• July 16, 2025: 1 report, 1.00 inch, in Platte County, Missouri.
• September 16, 2025, early evening: 8 reports, up to 1.75 inches, in Jackson and Platte counties in Missouri, and Johnson County in Kansas.
• October 18, 2025, overnight: 1 report, 1.00 inch, in Leavenworth County, Kansas.

May 19 was the year's big day: 35 of the 49 metro reports in 2025 came that afternoon. September 16 was the only other 2025 day with golf ball hail or larger on record. The two July days and October 18 were single reports, each at the 1-inch severe line. September 16 fits the ten-year pattern: from 2016 to 2025, September logged 78 metro reports on only 7 days, a few big storms rather than a season.

2026 started earlier, and with bigger stones.

2026 hail days so far

• March 10, 2026, evening: 33 reports, up to 3.00 inches, in Johnson, Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.
• April 15, 2026, afternoon: 13 reports, up to 1.25 inches, in Cass, Clay and Jackson counties in Missouri, and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

The March 10 storm put the year's largest stone so far on record in the metro, 3.00 inches, bigger than baseball size on the Weather Service chart. The same evening, NOAA also logged hail at Eudora in Douglas County, outside the metro. The Lawrence hail damage post lists the Douglas County reports.

March 10 fits the pattern as well. From 2016 to 2025, March logged 97 metro reports on 13 days, and the season runs March through June with May the peak. When is hail season in Kansas City has the month-by-month numbers.

The official database runs through June 25, 2026. Nothing later is listed yet, and that is not the same as no hail since then. If a storm hit your car after that date, write down the date you remember and where the car was parked. Standard policy notice covers how, when and where the loss happened.

Next, find your county.

Find your area

Where the car was parked during the storm matters more than where you live. Match the county to the dates, then read the page for your area.

• Johnson County, Kansas (May 19 and September 16, 2025; March 10 and April 15, 2026): Overland Park, Olathe, Shawnee.
• Wyandotte County, Kansas (March 10 and April 15, 2026): Kansas City, KS, Bonner Springs.
• Leavenworth County, Kansas (May 19 and October 18, 2025; March 10, 2026): Leavenworth, Lansing, Basehor.
• Clay County, Missouri (May 19, 2025; April 15, 2026): Liberty.
• Platte County, Missouri (May 19, July 16 and September 16, 2025): Platte City, Parkville, Weston.
• Jackson and Cass counties, Missouri (Jackson: April 1, May 19, July 11 and September 16, 2025, and April 15, 2026; Cass: April 15, 2026): the Kansas City hail storm page.

Found your storm? The next question is whether it is too late to do anything about it.

Found your storm: what to do now

Whether an older storm can still go on a claim depends on your policy. Here is what applies broadly:

• Report it promptly. Standard policy language asks for prompt notice of how, when and where the loss happened. If your car was hit in 2025 and you never reported it, do not wait longer, and ask your agent how your policy treats an older storm.
• Have the details ready. The date from the list above, the part of the day, and where the car was parked.
• Let them look first. The standard policy lets the insurer inspect and appraise the damage before it is repaired.
• Took a check and never fixed it? That is its own situation. Read hail insurance check, car not fixed.
• Hit twice? If the car took hail in 2025 and again in 2026, get the current damage documented now, before another season adds to it.

Whatever the date, the next step is the same.

Get the car scanned

A free 3D scan at our Leavenworth shop takes about 10 minutes and documents every panel, with dent counts, sizes and depths. Bring the storm date from this list and your claim number if you have one. If the claim goes ahead, a typical paintless repair takes 5-7 days, and your insurer can be billed directly. If the first estimate comes in light, the shop writes the supplement on the same claim. The scan is how a storm from the list above becomes an exact count on your own car.