QLD: More storms expected to hit Queensland

AAP General News (Australia)
12-08-2008
QLD: More storms expected to hit Queensland

BRISBANE, Dec 8 AAP - Central and southern Queensland could be hit by more severe storms
and flash flooding on Monday afternoon, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned.

A hospital, an ambulance station and six houses were damaged at Baralaba, west of Gladstone,
following severe storms on Sunday night.

The weather bureau's senior forecaster Bryan Rolstone said storms across central and
southern Queensland on Sunday night and storms as far north as Townsville on Monday morning
produced 50mm to 100mm of rain within an hour.

"There is a possibility of more severe storms in the Rockhampton area and as far south
as Fraser Island and Hervey Bay," Mr Rolstone said.

He said there was a chance a low pressure system developing near Fraser Island will
bring more heavy rain to the region on Monday afternoon.

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KEYWORD: STORM QLD

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