A warning for severe storms stretching from the Illawarra region in NSW to Queensland’s Wide Bay has been issued by the Bureau of Meteorology.
The bureau’s mapping on Thursday marked an approximately 1400km stretch of Australia’s east coast as being in the firing line of possible severe thunderstorms.
“Severe storms with large hail, damaging winds and heavy rain possible about southeast Queensland and the Wide Bay,” BOM’s Queensland office tweeted.
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It also warned of “a risk of very dangerous storms inland”, with “thunderstorms likely to form inland and push towards the coast”.
In NSW, the bureau warned of “possible” thunderstorms “along the northern half of the NSW ranges and adjacent coastal districts”.
The warnings come as two women were injured during a storm at Winya, near Kilcoy north of Brisbane, which was reported to have ignited a bushfire on Wednesday afternoon.
The women, aged in their 60s and 70s, suffered facial injuries when they were struck by debris as a house was extensively damaged during the storm just before 3pm, QAS said.
The women were taken to Caboolture Hospital in a stable condition.
A woman died when she was crushed by a falling tree in the Lockyer Valley on Friday.
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