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Nearly 25,000 households in Queensland's southeast woke up experiencing outages on Monday's dawn after intense storm systems swept through the region, generating strong winds reaching 109 kilometers per hour.

Large Hailstones and Widespread Destruction

Locals witnessed large ice chunks as large as seven centimeters in particular locations. Weather authorities announced that various areas across the state had been impacted by large hailstones.

The recent thunderstorm has absolutely smashed our network!

Utility workers were working to restore electricity service throughout the impacted areas, with approximately seventy teams deployed to manage the extensive power failures.

Southern State's Storm Challenges

Meanwhile, nearly 1,000 households in the southern state also experienced power outages after the capital city experienced its wettest day in 18 months.

State Emergency Services received over five hundred calls for help across the state, mostly for property damage but also for downed trees and water accumulation.

Most Impacted Locations

• Werribee - recorded substantial destruction
• Hoppers Crossing suburb - various emergency calls
• Wyndham - nearly 180 emergency requests

At one point on the previous day, more than 28,000 power users in Victoria were without power.

Weather Forecast

Moist weather were forecast to persist along significant areas of the state's eastern regions this coming days as a low-pressure trough continued to pull in damp air against the coast.

Tomorrow was forecast to be the most rainy day, with continued severe weather risk anticipated across various areas of both states.

Safety Concern

Public health experts cautioned that there was an greater possibility of epidemic thunderstorm asthma across the state's northern country region, specifically given the current weather patterns.

This warning comes after past events where analogous circumstances led to substantial respiratory problems in the region.