Hail Repair in Gladstone, MO
No Missouri city in the metro data logs more hail reports than Gladstone, yet none reached baseball size. See the record and what PDR can fix.
Hail reaches Gladstone often, and it rarely arrives as one giant stone. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) logged 164 reports of hail at 1 inch or larger within 10 miles of the city from 2010 to 2025. No Missouri city in our metro data has more. Those reports came on 49 days. Not one of them reached baseball size, 2.75 inches. So a car parked here can see hail more than once, mostly in moderate sizes. That pattern shapes the kind of dents you are likely to find.
Many reports, no baseball hail
Each report is one observation of hail at one spot, sized by the largest stone seen. Many of those sizes are estimates. Several reports can come from a single storm, so 164 reports does not mean 164 storms.
Only three cities in the metro data log more reports than Gladstone. Shawnee, Lenexa and Kansas City, Kansas, sit above it, all across the state line. Gladstone's 49 hail days rank third, behind Parkville and Shawnee.
Golf ball size, 1.75 inches and over, accounts for 29 of the reports, on 14 days. That is fewer than one in five. The other 135 fall between 1 inch and golf ball size.
The top size here is 2.5 inches. It came on three days: September 18, 2010, May 10, 2014, and September 27, 2019.
For your car, that mix points to plenty of shallow and medium dents rather than a few deep ones. Moderate hail still dents a roof and a hood.
Sixteen reports on one May day
Of all the golf ball days near Gladstone, May 26, 2016, brought the most reports. SPC logged 16, the largest at golf ball size. Belton was the only city in the data that storm day missed.
May 8, 2024, is the most recent golf ball day here. Twelve reports came in, again peaking at 1.75 inches.
May 10, 2014, brought 10 reports, with stones up to 2.5 inches. September 27, 2019, added seven and matched that top size.
April adds four golf ball days of its own. The busiest was April 8, 2011, with seven reports. April 8, 2015, brought four, with stones to 2 inches. And on March 13, 2024, when 3.5 inch hail fell across the state line, Gladstone logged three reports that topped out at golf ball size.
Then there is the fall surprise. On November 2, 2016, SPC logged 11 reports here, the largest 2 inches. Liberty, to the east, logged 12 that day.
One date stands out for what it did not bring. On September 18, 2010, a 5.5 inch stone fell near Independence. Near Gladstone, the six reports that day topped out at 2.5 inches.
April and May carry the load
May holds 61 of Gladstone's 164 reports. April holds 44. Together that is 105, close to two thirds of the file.
Gladstone's April count trails only Parkville's in the metro data. Its May count trails only Shawnee and Kansas City, Kansas.
The rest of the calendar is spread thin. June and September hold 15 each. November has 11, every one from that day in 2016. August adds eight, March six and July three. December shows a single report. January, February and October show none.
So in Gladstone, the window is April and May, with a long tail into fall. If your car sits outside, watch spring closely and keep an eye on September.
Gladstone in the Northland
Gladstone sits in Clay County, north of the Missouri River, in the part of the metro known as the Northland. Kansas City, Missouri, borders it on most sides. Interstate 35 runs to the east, toward Liberty. North Kansas City lies to the south.
The crew comes to the car anywhere in Gladstone, in a driveway or a parking lot. You do not drive across the river just to learn what the hail did.
Liberty, about eight miles east, has its own page and the freshest record stone in the metro data. Parkville, west in Platte County, logs the most hail days of all.
What the estimate tells you
Most of the hail logged near Gladstone stayed below golf ball size. Dents from hail that size are often good candidates for paintless repair. Some are not. Cracked paint, stretched metal or a dent on a braced seam can keep a dent from coming out fully. You hear which of your dents fall there before any work starts. What PDR cannot fix lays out each limit. If hail just hit, what to do after hail covers the first steps. Call for a free assessment.
Hail within 10 miles of Gladstone
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center hail reports, retrieved October 7, 2026. The 2025 file is SPC's file for the current year, and it can still be revised. A report is one observation, not one storm.
Hail Repair Questions in Gladstone
Part of it is geometry. The 10 mile circle around Gladstone takes in a busy stretch of the Northland and crosses the river to the south. One report can also count for several nearby cities. The sizes, though, are what observers saw. Across 16 years, no report near Gladstone reached 2.75 inches.
It did. SPC logged 11 reports near Gladstone on November 2, 2016, with stones up to 2 inches. Those 11 make up the city's entire November count from 2010 to 2025. Liberty logged 12 that day, and Kansas City, Missouri, logged six. Only four of the 20 metro cities show any November hail. Fall storms are rare here, but the file shows one can still dent a car.
In a city with 49 hail days on file, it can happen. The assessment counts every dent on the car either way. It cannot always tell you which storm left which dent. Your carrier decides how a claim treats older damage, so mention it and ask. An older dent can often still come out with PDR if the paint held. Cracked paint or stretched metal may not.
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