Supercell storm hammers flooded Queensland with hail the size of tennis balls and 90km/h winds 

Queensland is dealing with a supercell of storms and giant hail just as it tries to clean up from earlier devastating downpours.  

Hail measuring up to six centimetres hit towns in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in the early hours of Thursday.

“We’ve got a number of activities and jobs and requests for assistance, particularly this morning in the Beerwah and Landsborough areas,” QFES Deputy Commissioner Mike Wassing told the Nine Network.

“They had a significant storm, large hail.

“We’ve got an enormous amount of trees down, because obviously the ground is saturated, and we know we’ve got a number of houses impacted in that area.”

Hail measuring up to six centimetres hit towns in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in the early hours of Thursday.

A second storm was moving through the area around 6.30am, bringing wind gusts of up to 90km per hour.

A trough is moving across the south-east raising concerns about the potential for more flash flooding and renewed river rises.

Isolated areas could receive falls of more than 150 millimetres, the Bureau of Meteorology warned.

“There is some concern about these very dangerous thunderstorms so we are not over this yet, we’re not out of the woods,” Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Brisbane is getting ready to mobilise Mud Army 2.0 to clean up the city which was deluged with floodwaters earlier this week.

More than 10,000 people have already registered to help and the army will officially join the battle to clean up from Thursday, Brisbane City Council said.

Nine people have already died and thousands of homes and businesses have been ruined after a massive trough dropped more than a metre of rain on many parts of the state’s southeast since the start of the week.

The latest severe storm arrives just as Brisbane is attempting to clean up from earlier storms

People are seen removing household goods damaged in the downpour that hit Brisbane last weekend

Police are still searching for an elderly man who fell from a boat into the swollen Brisbane River near Breakfast Creek on Saturday afternoon.

In Brisbane, the river has dropped to minor-to-moderate flood levels as 8000 people sign up to the ‘mud army’ to help with the clean-up.

More than 17,500 homes and businesses in Brisbane, Gympie, Ipswich and Logan are believed to have been damaged by the widespread flooding, along with roads, bridges and other infrastructure. 

Very dangerous thunderstorms appeared on radar near Hatton Vale, Marburg and Rosewood. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east.  

Other severe thunderstorms were detected on the weather radar near Comboyuro Point, Conondale, Peak Crossing and Tangalooma.

Large, possibly giant hailstones, intense rainfall that may lead to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding and damaging winds are likely.

Cooyar (near Nanango) recorded 44mm in 30 minutes to 4:45am. Maroon Dam recorded 39mm in 15 minutes to 3:15am, while Woodford recorded 66mm in 30 minutes to 3am.

Giant hail around five to six cm was recorded just west of Inglewood around 12:10am.