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Southeast Queensland was smashed by severe thunderstorms on Wednesday evening, with giant hail, 100,000 lightning strikes, flash flooding and damaging winds.
Brisbane’s peak-hour traffic was thrown into chaos with suspended trains, traffic light outages, flash flooding and hour-long delays to commuters through key inner-city routes.
Energex reported about 11,000 properties without power at 6.30pm, most on the Sunshine Coast.
Flash flooding was reported across Brisbane, with at least two vehicles caught in floodwater at Moorooka. Rain gushes in through the broken rook of the Kmart store at Sunshine Plaza in Maroochydore.
Footage has emerged from inside a popular store at the Sunshine Plaza shopping centre in Maroochydore showing the roof gushing water after hail and wild storms lashed the Sunshine Coast.
Storm warnings have been issued for parts of southeast Queensland, as hail, heavy rain and damaging winds are forecast down the entire Queensland coastline.
A very dangerous storm that has caused giant hail near Esk, damaging winds and heavy rain is smashing into Brisbane and parts of southeast Queensland, with authorities urging people to take action.
The Bureau of Meteorology is urging people to take action as “explosive storms” producing large hail, damaging winds and flash flooding bear down on southeast Queensland.