{"id":401326,"date":"2025-11-24T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401326\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:48:41","slug":"giant-hail-hits-parts-of-south-east-queensland-as-heavy-rain-and-destructive-winds-move-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401326\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant hail hits parts of south-east Queensland as heavy rain and destructive winds move north"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giant hailstones, destructive winds and lightning have lashed parts of south-east Queensland, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents without power.<\/p>\n

Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued on Monday afternoon from the New South Wales border to the Sunshine Coast and the Wide Bay.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology said 11-centimetre hailstones were reported at Ferny Hills in the Moreton Bay region and Manly on Brisbane’s bayside about 3:30pm.<\/p>\n

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Giant hail fell in the Logan suburb of Cornubia this afternoon as storms sweep across south-east Queensland. (Supplied: Madison Fealy)<\/p>\n

At Brisbane Airport, a 107-kilometre per hour wind gust was recorded while a 100kph gust was recorded at Maroochydore.<\/p>\n

Neil McIntosh watched as a tree toppled outside his Coolum home seconds before he went to move his ute.<\/p>\n

“Luckily nobody was injured, I could have been I think if I’d been moving the car, but\u2026 lucky, very lucky,” he said.<\/p>\n

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A tree fell at Neil McIntosh’s property at Coolum during the storm on Monday afternoon. (ABC News: Jessica Ross)<\/p>\n

Storms also swept over parts of the Scenic Rim, producing strong winds and rain at Kylie Munce’s home in Canungra.<\/p>\n

She said there had been a “steady stream” of hail in varying sizes which settled around 2:30pm.<\/p>\n

“I’m more worried about the wind gusts [than the hail],”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

she said.<\/p>\n

“Lightning strikes are hitting Tamborine Mountain range, it’s wild.”<\/p>\n

\"Roof<\/p>\n

A roof was ripped from a house on Bribie Island on Monday afternoon. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

More than 150,000 customers lost power across south-east Queensland, with Moreton Bay, Ipswich and the Sunshine Coast regions most affected.<\/p>\n

More than 600 powerlines were down on Monday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Tree<\/p>\n

The storm downed trees at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast. (ABC News: Jessica Ross)<\/p>\n

“We do ask people to ring in any power lines that they see down, [and report] the locations of those,” Justin Coomber from Energex told ABC Radio Brisbane.<\/p>\n

\"Powerlines<\/p>\n

Hundreds of powerlines are down across south-east Queensland, including at Bribie Island. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Mr Coomber said Energex had recorded about 525,000 lightning strikes.<\/p>\n

“Yesterday, I think we had about 250,000 lightning strikes in the whole day across south-east Queensland, and just this afternoon we’ve had double that,” he said.<\/p>\n

“So that shows \u2026 that’s going to be some damage out there.”<\/p>\n

\"Tamrookum<\/p>\n

Hailstones measuring 5.5-6cm were recorded by Morgan Eric at Tamrookum.\u00a0 (Supplied: Morgan Eric)<\/p>\n

The State Emergency Service responded to 1,000 calls for help while the weather forced all flights at Brisbane Airport to be halted for about an hour.<\/p>\n

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The Brisbane suburb of Chermside before the storm hit at about 3pm today. (Supplied: MBK Aerials)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giant hailstones, destructive winds and lightning have lashed parts of south-east Queensland, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,20531,87709,8071,11042,50,6773,3883,313,37128],"class_list":{"0":"post-401326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-bom","10":"tag-bureau-of-meteorology","11":"tag-extreme-weather","12":"tag-hail","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-rain","15":"tag-storms","16":"tag-weather","17":"tag-weather-warnings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115604758593303350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}