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On Friday, the forecast was about 15-20 millimeters, with falls reaching 20-25 millimeters and reaching 50 millimeters in isolated areas.
"Then Sunday's downpours and Monday's showers are likely to decline, although these numbers are expected to decline rapidly along the coasts, reaching 10-20 millimeters on Sunday and 15-15 millimeters on Monday," Blazak said.
However, the meteorological office was monitoring the depression off the coast.
"The trough on Queensland's southeast coast is a factor of uncertainty at the present time," Blazak said.
"One side of the trough will get a lot of rain and the other, almost 50 km away.
"So there is some uncertainty around Sundays and Mondays as to how to hit that trough, because it feels like you are going to NSW at this point.
"However, if it hangs around, we risk seeing heavy rains again on Sunday."
Mr. Blazak said that there was no more storm on the charts, just potentially abundant showers.
A boy transported to Brisbane hospital in critical condition after a cleaning accident
A boy was beaten for life after being hit by a large tree falling in a storm-ridden southeastern region of Queensland on Friday morning.
Witnesses raised the tree of the boy, who would be between 11 and 12 years old, before the arrival of paramedics. He was then flown to the Queensland Children's Hospital in Brisbane in critical condition.
The Queensland ambulance service was called on a property in Hodgleigh, 205 kilometers northwest of Brisbane, shortly after 11 am and found that the boy had been seriously wounded "from head to toe", including head, neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis and lower limbs.
"Maybe no one has seen a leak of Woolworths yet"
A Woolworths supermarket in southeastern Queensland could not handle the volume of rain and caused multiple leaks in the ceiling and walls in seconds, flooding the registers and forcing evacuation.
A client, Kate Whiteway, was waiting to be served at the store around 3 pm when she noticed that a small amount of water was flowing down the side wall. In the seconds following his recording on his phone, water broke through the panels on all sides.
"The staff was totally shocked at first, but then he was very professional and sent everyone out of the front part of the roof … and then evacuated us from the front," Whiteway said. .
She said that she has never seen such an intense storm during her six years at Cooloola Cove, about 200 kilometers north of Brisbane.
"It was a bizarre event and devoid of nature, I just took a video in a hurry because I thought no one would believe me if I told the story.
"Since then, my phone has exploded … maybe no one has seen a leak of Woolworths yet."
Kingaroy's mother, Fiona Simpson, protected her daughter while she was hit by hail.Credit:Facebook
During Thursday's violent storms, a mother from Queensland and her young daughter were bombarded with hail after the windows of her vehicle were shattered while she was caught on a highway.
Fiona Simpson posted footage of her injuries on Facebook and told her story: she suffered the shock of the storm on the Aguilar Expressway, about 200 kilometers northwest of Brisbane, with her baby and his grandmother in the vehicle.
Mrs. Simpson stated that they had parked on the side of the road as the storm intensified, then the hail blew through the windows.
"I've covered my baby with my body to prevent it from hurting itself badly.
"My whole back, arms and head are badly bruised.
"I'm so relieved that my daughter and grandmother are doing well."
Power cut for 35,000 properties
The state emergency service received 320 calls for help between Thursday at 5:00 am and Friday at 5:30 am.
"None of these cases was particularly serious," said a spokeswoman for the Queensland Fire and Emergency Department.
"They mainly concerned storm damage, hail damage to windows and skylights, tarpaulins and deforestation.
Nearly 50 additional SES volunteers were sent on Friday morning to the most affected areas to help with the recovery efforts.
Approximately 35,000 Energex and Ergon Energy properties lost power during the height of storms.
A spokesperson for both energy providers, Justin Coomber, said most of the blackouts had occurred in the Bundaberg, Fraser Coast, South Burnett and Gympie areas.
Lazarus left in a rag
A Queensland farmer heals a cockatoos after the bird has been found beaten and bruised as a result of the storm.
Damien Tessmann sought refuge in one of the homes of his Coolabunia family, about 200 kilometers northwest of Brisbane, before assessing the damage and locating the bird he had named Lazarus in a deplorable state.
"When I got home, I ran to the back and I found it lying flat under the clothesline, the wings spread between all the branches and the iron," he said. he declared.
"I thought the poor guy was dead, so I kicked him with my foot to see him and he was alive."
Damien Tessman, a farmer from Coolabunia, spotted this poor cockatoo, now called Lazarus, while he was assessing the damage to his property.Credit:Damien Tessmann
Mr Tessmann said that he had started tracking down his 250 cows through the pens when Lazarus had come up and started walking around his home.
"Then I came back to him and he was perched on a small branch," he said.
"He is sitting in a metal trash bin with a towel wrapped around him in the shop with corn to nibble on.
"The good people of Kingaroy could have heard his screams so loudly that when I caught him."
Mr. Tessmann testified that Lazarus had a damaged eye that had swelled and that he was unable to fly before taking him in his arms.
"I'm going to take him to the vet to watch him because I do not know if he's just in shock or if he has any damage," he said.
Mr. Tessmann said the storm had killed many birds, "bush turkeys with pigeons and so on … poor idiots had nowhere to go, the fact that he survived so is impressive. "
"Like a freight train crossing the house"
Larrissa Donalds, who lives in Kolan South about 25 kilometers south-east of Bundaberg, said she lost power around 8 pm, before the power was restored for two hours, then turned off again until 4 o'clock in the morning.
"Hail broke two windows, it's the biggest hail I've ever seen," she said.
"I saw worse with the rain, but hail was the worst I've ever seen, it fell for 15 to 20 good minutes.
"It was just huge, between the size of a golf ball and a tennis ball."
Destructive winds and large hailstones destroyed parts of southeastern Queensland as tornadoes formed near Kingaroy.
"The hills around us looked like ski slopes"
Gympie residents have seen the size of golf balls, falling trees, debris and objects the size of a trampoline bumping into a door with a strong wind.
Violent winds blew over Gympie, throwing clotheslines and a trampoline. The size of the golf balls was raining.Credit:Jok Bub.
Local resident Melinda Ellison said "cyclonic winds and hail" were reaching the horizon.
"I had never seen hail like that before, it was very loud and extremely scary because I was alone at home," she said.
"The hills around us looked like ski slopes."
Ellison also had no electricity and was using a generator Thursday morning after the "cyclonic winds" and hail hit her home.
"We live outside the city and have no water or access to anything, but we are fortunate to have a generator, but many people do not even have this system," she said. .
"Most of Gympie is still without electricity and it is still raining, which makes the task much more difficult for Energex and for anyone trying to clean up.
"The city is full of debris and the trees have been stripped of all their leaves, many houses have been hit, their windows broken and their cars damaged," she said.
The worst storm seems to have crossed the north and the interior of the Sunshine Coast.
Gympie suffered a wind gust of 98 km / h and 42 millimeters of rain, while 76 millimeters of rain fell at Noosa and 80 millimeters at Mingo Creek in the wide bay. Blackwater, much further north and west of Rockhampton, recorded a gust of 144 km / h.
At 6:30 pm, the office canceled a severe storm warning that had spread from Rainbow Beach to Stanthorpe.
The threat of the tornado was eased an hour earlier as areas such as Wide Bay, Darling Downs and Granite Belt, southern Capricorn and the southern highlands and coalfield were preparing to resist hail and strong winds.
Nanango MP Deb Frecklington, opposition leader in the state of Queensland, said the storms had hit hard.
"We are used to extreme weather in my patch, but it was something else," she said.
"The supercell has hit the community in many different ways: crops have been cut, properties damaged and animals injured.
"People are lifting and dusting themselves, but the recovery will put us to the test."
Toby Crockford is a reporter for the Brisbane Times
