Yesterday afternoon parts of Queensland were barraged by damaging winds, hail and torrents of water. The Sunshine Coast was awash when it received 29mm in only 10 minutes! Rain rates of 5mm in 10 minutes are classified as condusive to flash flooding. The Sunshine Coast ended up with a total of 79mm. Maryborough also received 30mm of rain in 10 minutes and 65km/h wind gusts before the weather station stopped recording. The highest falls recorded were 103mm at Goomboorian near Gympie. There were also reports of damaging winds, especially in the town of Cooroy, where roofs were cast aside and trees strewn along the ground. It is estimated that wind gusts would have exceeded 120km/h in some places. However, the localised damaging winds did not blow through an automatic weather station to be recorded. These fierce storms not only caused flash flooding and damaging winds, but there were also reports of hail. The small inland town of Somerset was said to have received hail before the storm cell moved towards the coast and dumped most of its rain. The storms were caused by the northeastward movement of a low pressure trough and its associated southerly change. The trough led to the condensation of huge amounts of water in the atmosphere that formed as a towering cumulonimbus cloud. The very large moisture content culminated in the huge amounts of rain falling throughout southeast Queensland. Thunderstorms are expected to continue through Queensland today, with severe storms possible again. Brisbane is likely to miss out again after only receiving 0.2mm yesterday. Tomorrow the storms should leave southeast Queensland for a quick repreive, before returning for the weekend.