Severe thunderstorms affected the Granite Belt district near Stanthorpe. The storm produced up to golf ball size hail and devastated vegetable crops in the region. In half an hour it cut a 2 kilometre wide trail of destruction through 20 kilometres of the Amiens and Bapaume Ridge districts causing crop damage estimated at $5 to $7 million. More than 300 ha of crops were lost including apple and stone fruit orchards