South-east and southern Queensland residents are being warned of the possibility of more storms to come, after parts of the region were lashed by giant hail over the weekend.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Baden Gilbert said showers and storms could develop over the Darling Downs on Monday afternoon, before moving east.
On Sunday, multiple storm fronts moved across the state’s south, delivering giant hail of up to eight centimetres in some places, including Googa Creek, north of Toowoomba, while seven-centimetre hail struck the town of Yarraman, slightly further north.
At Tamborine, hailstones measuring up to five centimetres were seen, while seven-centimetre hail was reported east of Kingaroy.
Garden furniture in Clifton was damaged in Saturday’s storm. (ABC News: Dan McCray)
Residents cleaning up from Saturday’s storms
Sunday’s storms came just a day after giant hail of up to nine centimetres caused injuries and damaged cars and homes across the region, in what the BOM categorised as a “widespread thunderstorm outbreak”.
At their peak, Saturday’s storms knocked out power to thousands of homes across the state’s south-east.
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Outages had been concentrated around the Brisbane, South Burnett and Toowoomba areas.
On Monday morning, 500 to 600 households remained without power around the towns of Wandoan and Taroom, about five-and-a-half-hours north-west of Brisbane.
Ergon spokesperson Danny Donald said some of that power was unlikely to be restored until Tuesday because crews were finding it difficult to access some of the wet areas.
He said additional choppers would be brought in on Monday to assess the damage to some of those hard-hit areas.
Too early for insurance claim figures
Aerial vision of the town of Esk, to Brisbane’s north-west, showed extensive damage to solar panels, cars, roofs, windows and homes.
Hundreds without power as SEQ braces for more storms
Nine people were assessed for hail-related injuries sustained at a community event in the town on Saturday, with four people taken to hospital.
Similar levels of damage were recorded on the Darling Downs, where residents in the towns of Pratten and Clifton in the Toowoomba region had assessed the damage to their own properties as totalling thousands of dollars.
Speaking on Sunday, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli said it was too early to count the cost of the damage.
The Insurance Council of Australia is yet to receive data about the number of claims lodged following the weekend’s wild weather.