A storm produced golf ball sized hail at Millmerran. By 12.45pm a?line of thunderstorms had developed from Cecil Plains to Millmerran to the Stanthorpe area with a particularly severe thunderstorm about 30km west of Warwick. Subsequently strong winds at Warwick uprooted trees and bought down power lines with?hail up to 5 cm in diameter reported.? The line was rapidly moving east and some weak thunderstorms developed in the Southeast Coast District ahead of the main line of storms. By 1.20pm one of these weak storms rapidly intensified as it moved from Beaudesert onto the ranges west of Nerang while the other storms ahead of the main line weakened. The storm west of Nerang continued to rapidly intensify and move very quickly to the southeast that took in into the Coolangatta Palm Beach area where more than 500 homes were damaged by large hail about golf ball size. The main line of storms by 2.30pm lay from Esk to Mt Nebo to Beaudesert. A possible tornado struck the Mt Nebo region where?a 200metre wide damage track has been spotted in the forest from the air. Extensive wind damage occurred in the Mt Nebo Samford region?and this storm continued on to cause damage at Sandgate and Redcliffe. Meanwhile the main line of storms reached the Gold Coast around 3pm and large hail stopped the Indy car racewhich was not affected by the Palm Beach Coolangatta storm