Parts of Queensland are expected to experience severe storm activity on Wednesday. Giant hailstones near Stanthorpe and damaging wind gusts on the Capricorn Coast were recorded on Tuesday night.
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00:00It hit hard and fast.
00:04Talk about a hailstorm.
00:06The granite belt pummeled by a supercell yesterday, properties pelted by cricket ball sized hail.
00:15Robert Fenwick's three vineyards copped a battering.
00:18If we pick anything off here at all, it would be a miracle.
00:21These berries copped a bruising.
00:24Ten hectares of crops were impacted at this farm near Stanthorpe.
00:28They were almost ready for picking.
00:30We will be behind in the next four to five weeks, it's just a percentage of how much
00:36we don't know.
00:37Rowan Matthews-Frederick spent thousands of hours renovating his Kingaroy home.
00:42A lot of hard work, all gone now.
00:45A gum tree toppled in fierce winds from a freak storm on Monday, splitting the house
00:50in two.
00:51I thought, oh, that's a write off, just a bad run for Kingaroy, yeah, a couple of weeks
00:55of floods and then a storm that's done a heap of damage.
00:58The constant downpours proving costly for businesses in the South Burnet.
01:03I would say from all the equipment we've had to hire, labour and all this type of stuff,
01:07we're probably maybe somewhere around ten grand at this stage for the two weather events
01:10and still going.
01:11It's just unprecedented times in Kingaroy and our South Burnet.
01:15The Bureau of Meteorology says the region's run of wild weather is unusual.
01:21Very much indicative of a very energetic atmosphere as well, fuelled by very unstable conditions
01:28It's over $10 million worth of damage just in the roads alone.
01:31There'll be no reprieve until Friday.
01:34Risk for severe storms will persist for the Wide Bay Burnet and South Burnet area particularly
01:40as we go to today and into tomorrow.
01:42Summer storms by name and by nature.