A trampoline went flying in the storm in Brisbane's east on Thursday afternoon. Picture: Lesley Walker “It lasted for 10 minutes. It was all done.” Andrew Bobir, who has lived in the area for ...

“It was really intense for such a small storm … we’ve got a 44 wires down at the moment [in Brisbane’s south],” an Energex spokesman said. The storm barely interrupted the low-intensity ...

Patrons of a restaurant in New Farm have escaped injury after its roof blew off during a storm in Brisbane last night.

Energex recorded 216,000 lightning strikes across the south-east on Thursday across three storms that hit the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, and the stretch of suburbs in Brisbane’s south.

Fallen trees are still peppering a string of suburbs in Brisbane’s south-east in the aftermath of a sudden, intense storm on Thursday, with clean-up works expected to continue into the weekend.

A weekend of wild weather has drenched large swathes of Australia ... thunderstorms stretching all the way from Townsville down to Brisbane,' senior meteorologist Angus Hines told AAP.

SES had 40 call-outs from 2pm on Thursday until Friday morning, with just over half of them in Brisbane. Residents survey the damage after the microburst storm hit suburbs in Brisbane’s east.