"Saw a yard with white stuff and I thought they were mushrooms and my wife thought it was flowers. It never came to my mind that it could be hail," Mr Balista said. Proserpine resident Jimmy Balista was driving through Yalbaroo, and initially thought the hail was mushrooms or flowers.
It smashed through car windscreens and stripped trees. Giant hail measuring 16 centimetres was reported at Yalboroo, north of Mackay, in a severe storm yesterday, and the BOM said it was a "new Australian record". Two tornados were recorded near Gladstone and Toowoomba on Monday and record large hail was recorded about 70 kilometres north of Mackay on Tuesday afternoon. The BOM said the severe storms may also lead to flash flooding in those areas. The BOM has issued severe thunderstorm warnings for people on the Central Coast and Whitsundays, Capricornia and parts of the Herbert and Lower Burdekin, Central Highlands and Coalfields, Wide Bay and Burnett, Darling Downs, Granite Belt and south-east coast districts.Īreas that may be affected include Rockhampton, Mackay, Proserpine, Bowen, Hamilton Island, Mount Morgan, Gympie, Warwick, Stanthorpe, Laidley, Lowood and Ipswich. Severe thunderstorms with giant hailstones, heavy rain and destructive winds are expanding across Queensland's central and south-east regions, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says.
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