More storms on the way for Queensland’s east coast after hail storms yesterday, BOM warns

Queensland’s entire east coast south of Townsville could get showers and severe thunderstorms this afternoon, with the potential for damaging winds and large hail.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said the inland low pressure system that has been causing showers over the past week will remain until tomorrow.

Senior forecaster Rod Dickson said some Brisbane suburbs received between 60 and 70 millimetres of rain in storms yesterday.

“We’ll see further shower and thunderstorm activity persisting into Saturday as that trough deepens, a little bit further inland,” he said.

“[There is] potential for some damaging winds, heavy rainfall and hail with those thunderstorms, particularly during the afternoon on Saturday.”

Severe storms once again made landfall in south-east Queensland yesterday, with multiple reports of heavy rain and hail across the region.

The BOM said one storm cell south of Caboolture and Redcliffe had golf ball-sized hail and 78 millilitres of rain, with “much of that falling in an hour”.

The BOM said Waterford, south of Brisbane, had received 63mm of rain in one hour and 78mm was recorded at Beachmere in the Gold Coast hinterland.

Smaller hail fell as part of another storm cell in the Logan region, south of Brisbane, that brought 60mm of rain.