Storms have once more hit southeast Queensland, but residents have been spared from the hail and torrential rain weather forecasters feared was likely.

October 28, 2020

Dangerous storms have again lashed parts of southeast Queensland, but the state has escaped forecast flash flooding and giant hail.

The severe thunderstorms swept over Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast and the Gympie area on Wednesday afternoon before heading out to sea.

But residents were largely spared from the destructive winds, hail, torrential rain and life-threatening flash flooding the Bureau of Meteorology warned was likely.

“Luckily it wasn’t a repeat. It’s all fast-moving today, that’s what’s saved us,” meteorologist Dean Narramore.

“Yesterday was quite slow-moving so it was allowed it to sit and rain for quite a while, whereas today it was just a quick shot of rain and it was out again.”

Despite this, some areas did cop a bucketing. Tiaro, north of the Sunshine Coast, recorded 51mm of rain in an hour.

“The impressive thing about that was 22mm of it fell in five minutes,” Mr Narramore said.

Some residents in the region remain without power, with Energex reporting more than 7000 electricity users in the southeast of the state are suffering an emergency outage.

The bureau warned a few storms were still hanging about, with a severe thunderstorm spotted on the weather radar near Kingaroy, northwest of the Sunshine Coast.

The thunderstorm is moving east southeast and may impact the Ipswich area later in the afternoon.

Mr Narramore said another intense storm is moving west from Toowoomba and could also hit Brisbane’s western suburbs later on Wednesday.

Large storms are also drenching areas around Rockhampton, Gladstone and Bundaberg with nearby Cedar Vale recording 65mm of rain in an hour.

“That’s almost a month’s worth of rain in an hour,” Mr Narramore said.

The storms come a day after torrential rain and tennis ball-sized hailstones bucketed down across the region.

Beachmere, near Caboolture, recorded 80mm of rain in an hour on Tuesday, while 70mm fell on on The Upper Lockyer, west of Brisbane.

Flash flooding inundated some Brisbane areas at the height of the storms, causing traffic delays and one driver to be stranded on the roof of his car.

“It was the wettest October day for the city since 2010,” meteorologist Rosa Hoff said.

A general severe thunderstorm warning remains current for the Wide Bay and Burnett, Southeast Coast and parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields, Capricornia and Darling Downs and Granite Belt districts.