A severe thunderstorm has hit Caboolture and areas north of Brisbane, with a separate cell further south moving toward Stanthorpe.
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The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a warning for damaging winds, large hail and heavy rain for parts of the Southern Downs, Moreton Bay and Brisbane City council areas.
The storms are moving south-east and expected to impact Deception Bay waters, northern Moreton Island and Comboyuro Point by 2:30pm and southern Moreton Island by 3:00pm.
A separate storm cell is forecast to affect Stanthorpe and Applethorpe by 3:00pm.
The BOM said there had been reports of 2 to 3 centimetre hail at Woodford, north-west of Brisbane.
There is a broader storm warning for parts of the Wide Bay Burnett, Maranoa and Warrego, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, the South-East Coast and parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields.
Brisbane Airport has recorded a relative humidity of 78 per cent today, and 84 per cent at Cape Moreton.
At 2:00pm there were almost 2,000 customers without power in the Brisbane area, according to Energex.
Cold change tomorrow
Earlier, meteorologist James Thompson said the BOM expected the Sunshine Coast, Wide Bay regions and areas on the New South Wales-Queensland border would be hit hardest by storms.
It comes as heatwave conditions continue to scorch parts of Queensland.
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“We’re seeing the hot weather continuing with heatwave conditions for northern and eastern Queensland over the next couple of days,” Mr Thompson said.
He said a cold change was expected to pass through on Tuesday and later in the week.
“We start to see the tropics becoming more active with a tropical wave moving into the Queensland and Australian region.
“This means that increased rainfall becomes a risk from next week with the tropical weather and moisture moving into the Queensland region.
“The storms are likely to shift north tomorrow up towards the Capricornia and central coast’s with rainfall remaining a risk with any thunderstorms that form on eastern Queensland and even the chance through the tropical peninsula tomorrow.”
He said very high fire danger ratings continuing for Queensland today and move into the south-east as well.
“Tomorrow, we’re seeing very high fire danger ratings for the south-east coast district with drier windy conditions moving into the region. We will then see the cool change moderate fire danger ratings from Wednesday.