Brisbane BOM radar: south-east QLD storms bring heavy rain, causing flooding and traffic

Dangerous storms have lashed southeast Queensland, as a month’s rain and tennis ball-sized hailstones were dumped from the Darling Downs to the Sunshine Coast.

Beachmere, near Caboolture, recorded 80mm of rain in an hour on Tuesday, while 70mm bucketed down on The Upper Lockyer, west of Brisbane, the Bureau of Meteorology reported.

“That’s a month’s rain in the space of an hour,” meteorologist Felim Hanniffy told AAP.

“In some areas of northern Brisbane 50mm fell in 30 minutes.”