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Around 25,000 residences in southeastern Queensland woke up lacking electricity on Monday morning after severe thunderstorms impacted the region, generating powerful gusts hitting 109 kilometers per hour.

Massive Hailstones and Broad Impact

Homeowners witnessed giant hailstones reaching sizes of 7cm in some areas. Weather authorities confirmed that various areas across Queensland had been affected by large hailstones.

This afternoon's storm has heavily impacted our network!

Response teams were attempting to repair electricity service throughout the affected regions, with approximately seventy teams activated to address the widespread outages.

Southern State's Storm Challenges

At the same time, nearly one thousand energy customers in the southern state also faced power outages after the capital city recorded its most precipitation in a year and a half.

State Emergency Services received nearly 600 calls for help across the state, primarily for property damage but also for downed trees and flooding.

Most Affected Areas

• Werribee region - experienced substantial weather impact
• Hoppers Crossing area - multiple assistance requests
• Wyndham region - over 175 help reports

During the peak on yesterday, in excess of 28,000 power users in the state were without power.

Climate Outlook

Humid circumstances were predicted to continue along significant areas of Queensland's east this next several days as a atmospheric system continued to attract humidity against the coastal areas.

Tuesday was expected to become the heaviest precipitation period, with ongoing thunderstorm potential anticipated across various areas of both regions.

Safety Concern

Public health experts warned that there was an greater possibility of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the state's northern country region, specifically given the existing atmospheric conditions.

This alert comes after previous incidents where comparable situations led to major medical consequences in the region.