Organisers say the yacht's crew are uninjured and will continue in the race after their vessel was struck by lightning as incredible pictures of huge storms and hail are captured around the state.
“Supercell” storms that could bring giant hail, destructive wind gusts and heavy rainfall are possible over coming days, as widespread showers shift to the east coast.
“Supercell” storms that could bring giant hail, destructive wind gusts and heavy rainfall are possible over coming days, as widespread showers shift to the east coast.
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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.
“You can’t rule it out (being severe), all the criteria is there.
“Whether each individual cell can create enough energy to get organised it remains to be seen but it’s likely all the three main criteria.”
Mr Markworth said large hail, damaging winds and heavy rainfall of between 50-60mm were all possible in coming days.
He said Monday was due to be fine and sunny with maximum temperatures of 26C for Maroochydore.
From Thursday the storms were due to gradually clear.
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