Hail Repair in Lenexa, KS
Lenexa logs big hail often, and it keeps logging it into September. See the NOAA record, the 3.5 inch day and what PDR can do for your car.
Lenexa's hail does not quit when spring ends. Golf ball hail fell near the city in September of 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) logged those reports within 10 miles of Lenexa, inside a record of 20 golf ball days from 2010 to 2025. Only Overland Park shows more golf ball days in the metro data. No city at all shows more golf ball reports than Lenexa's 46. If your car lives outside here, the season runs long and the stones run big.
Four Septembers, two years apart
The September run sets Lenexa apart. On September 27, 2019, seven reports came in, the largest at golf ball size. September 20, 2021, added five more. On September 23, 2023, only three came in, but one of them measured 2.5 inches. Then six arrived on September 16, 2025, the latest 1 inch day in Lenexa's file.
The odd years are a coincidence, not a schedule. What the record does show is that September is a real hail month here. Lenexa logged 25 September reports, more than any other city in the metro data. That equals its March count and beats June by eight.
August belongs on the watch list too. Lenexa's 12 August reports also lead the metro. In 2021 the city logged golf ball hail in July, August and September, one day in each. August 12 was the busiest of the three, with 10 reports.
A March day at 3.5 inches
The record stone near Lenexa measured 3.5 inches, on March 13, 2024. Eleven reports came in that day. The same 3.5 inch mark shows up for Shawnee, Merriam and Kansas City, Kansas. Their circles overlap Lenexa's, so a big report can count for all four. The rest of 2024 stayed busy. May 8 brought 11 more reports, topping out at 2 inches, and May 26 added four. That made three golf ball days in one spring.
Baseball size hail, 2.75 inches or more, appears four times in the file. Those reports came on three days: March 6, 2017, May 18, 2017, and March 13, 2024. Two of the three fell in March, early in the season.
March 6, 2017, was also the busiest golf ball day on file, with 12 reports topping out at 2.75 inches. On May 18, 2017, seven reports came in, led by a 2.85 inch stone.
All told, Lenexa logged 176 reports of 1 inch hail or larger, spread over 46 days. A report means someone saw hail and a size was recorded for the largest stone. That size is often estimated, and one storm can generate several reports.
May still carries the most
May leads with 57 of the 176 reports, about a third of the total. April adds 29, and March and September hold 25 each. June comes in at 17, August at 12 and July at 10. Apart from one December report, nothing appears from October through February.
So spring still brings most of the hail. March through May account for 111 reports, close to two thirds. The difference is the tail. July through September carry 47 reports here, more than any other city in the metro data. The Kansas City hail season post sets that September run against the rest of the metro.
Golf ball days follow the same split. Twelve of the 20 came from March through May, and eight came from July through September. Not one fell in June.
For a car parked outside, that means two watch windows. The first runs March through May. The second opens in August and runs through September.
Lenexa between Shawnee and Olathe
Lenexa sits in Johnson County. Shawnee lies to the north, Overland Park to the east and Olathe to the south. Three highways shape any trip across the city: Interstate 35, Interstate 435 and Kansas Highway 10.
Those neighbors have pages of their own. Shawnee leads the metro in total reports, and Olathe counts that 2.85 inch stone of May 18, 2017, as its record.
If the car spends the workday in a Lenexa office park, the repair can happen in that lot, with the owner's okay.
Hear the hard dents first
The dents worth asking about are the ones that will not come out. You hear about them at the estimate, panel by panel, before any work begins. Every limit of PDR sits on one page if you want to read ahead. After hail this size, ask about the roof and the hood first, since those panels face the sky. Call for a free assessment.
Hail within 10 miles of Lenexa
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 Lenexa
SPC's reports cannot explain it. What they show is plain enough. Lenexa logged 25 September reports from 2010 to 2025, more than any other city in the metro data. Four of those Septembers brought golf ball hail. If your car usually sits outside, keep a covered spot in mind into early fall, not just through June.
It is the largest in the file, so yes. Most of Lenexa's 176 reports came in below golf ball size. Still, 46 reached golf ball size or larger, and four reached baseball size across three days. Stones that big are more likely to crack paint or stretch metal. Those are the dents to ask about first when the car is assessed.
Not necessarily. Many dents from large hail still come out with PDR when the paint holds. A panel with cracked paint or stretched metal may need a body shop instead. One car can get both kinds of repair. You hear which panels need which at the assessment, before anything is decided. Your carrier then decides what it authorizes for the whole car.
Get the Dents Out, Keep the Paint
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