Bureau warns of hail as storms forecast for large parts of Queensland
The weather bureau has issued a severe thunderstorm warning parts of southern Queensland after a heavy rainfall lashed the Sunshine Coast and Toowoomba afternoon. LATEST UPDATES
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A severe thunderstorm warning issued for the state’s southeast has been canclled after parts of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland were lashed with 94mm of rain in an hour.
Severe thunderstorms are no longer affecting the state’s southeast with the weather bureau cancelling their warnings about 5.40pm.
The immediate threat of severe thunderstorms has passed, but the situation will continue to be monitored and further warnings will be issued if necessary
Heavy isolated falls have been recorded this afternoon near Toowoomba and Woodford, with
94mm recorded in the hour to 3.20pm at Delaney’s Creek, while 52mm fell at Mt Sylvia in the hour until 2.30pm.
A separate more general severe thunderstorm warning remains current for parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields and Wide Bay and Burnett Forecast Districts.
Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding in the warning area over the next several hours in Gayndah, Childers, Mundubbera, Biggenden and Eidsvold.
Less severe thunderstorms are possible for much of the state and forecast to be more severe from the Gold Coast to Ballera in the west and up to Carnarvon National Park.
Thousands of Brisbane residents in several suburbs have been impacted by power outages after power lines went down in some areas.
As at 2.30pm Friday, there were 2,303 customers in southeast Queensland affected by the outages across nine areas.
These locations include Moorooka with 521 and Rocklea with 393 with fallen power lines causing the outages.
It is not clear what has caused the power lines to fall.
Ferny Grove was also affected with 596 customers without power and Ferny Hills with 696.
Energex said the cause of these outages were under investigation.
BOM meteorologist Shane Kennedy said possibly severe storms would continue for the south and central regions across the weekend.
“The primary risk of severe thunderstorms will be in central Queensland over the weekend, particularly between Longreach and Emerald, with the risk of heavy rainfall leading to flash flooding in the area,” Mr Kennedy said.
Temperatures in the southeast east are expected to drop below average over the weekend, to the high 20s.
Western Queensland will remain hot with temperatures expected in the high 30s and low 40s across the weekend before cooling down as showers and storms increase, particularly across central Queensland.
The northeast coast will be mostly sunny until Sunday when showers and thunderstorms begin to arrive from the west.
Mr Kennedy said a monsoon trough was forecast to develop over the Northern Territory on the weekend which may move across northern Queensland next week.
It’s possible a low will track across the state and linger near the east coast from Wednesday.
It comes after Brisbane’s inner-city was lashed by a wild rainstorm on Thursday, which caused traffic chaos after it brought down a tree on a car on Coronation Drive.
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