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Subject Superstorm hits Australia's East Coast with 4000 lightning strikes in one hour in Brisbane

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15 minutes ago from BOM:

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING - SOUTHEAST QUEENSLAND
for DAMAGING WIND and HEAVY RAINFALL

For people in the BRISBANE CITY, MORETON BAY, REDLAND CITY, North Stradbroke Island and parts of the GOLD COAST CITY, LOGAN CITY, IPSWICH CITY and SUNSHINE COAST Council Areas.

Issued at 9:57 pm Saturday, 17 November 2012.

The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 9:55 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Brisbane CBD, Strathpine and Caboolture. These thunderstorms are moving towards the southeast. They are forecast to affect Beenleigh, Logan City, Cleveland and Redcliffe by 10:25 pm and southern Moreton Island, Tangalooma and northern Moreton Bay by 10:55 pm.

Damaging winds and heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding are likely.

I'm in Caboolture, the rain has been steady but the lightning and thunder has been nearly endless the last hour and a bit, and it's picking up again. Been a few thunder hits so loud it feels like a shockwave runs through the house
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A weather alert was posted by the Bureau of Meteorology just minutes before rain smacked the east coast, leaving thousands of people without power.

Weatherzone reported more than 4000 lightning strikes within 80km of Brisbane in the space of one hour.

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