Two women have suffered injuries in two separate lightning strike incidents as parts of southeast Queensland have been hammered by more than 200mm of rain.
Emergency services confirmed both women were taken to hospital following the two separate incidents, although they were not directly struck by lightning.
The first incident occurred about 12.43am on Friday when a woman suffered neck pain after her property on Yandina Bli Bli Road on the Sunshine Coast was hit.
She was taken to Nambour Hospital in a stable condition.
The second incident happened just two hours later, when a lightning strike caused a small fire on a property on Coutts Drive in Burpengary.
A woman sustained minor burns and was taken to Caboolture Hospital in a stable condition.
Nambour has been one of the hardest hit towns as southeast Queensland copped a battering.
In the three hours up to 1.31am, Nambour recorded a whopping 136mm of rain, while Mapleton recorded 140mm in three hours up to 1.47am.
The Maroochy Intake Weir copped 91mm between midnight and 1am, while 151mm soaked the Sunshine Coast town of West Woombye between 10.23pm and 1.23am.
The Bureau of Meteorology said flash flooding was a threat as multiple locations recorded three-hour totals between 130mm and 150mm.
There are no current thunderstorm warnings on the BOM website, however earlier on Friday it said there was a “slight chance” heavy falls could redevelop throughout the morning, but the message was revoked shortly after 8am.
It appears the brunt of the bad weather occurred overnight and in the early hours of the morning, with less showers forecast for the rest of the day in the affected parts of Queensland.
The bad weather put a dampener on Anzac Day commemorations in some parts of the state.
Nambour’s dawn service and 9am Anzac parade down Ann Street were cancelled as streets were hit by flash flooding.
A large number of chairs which were prepared to be laid out for the service were washed away, leaving behind a large clean-up operation.
“We planned for a long time… and put so much effort into this over the past three or four months,” Nambour RSL sub-branch president Wes Davidson told ABC.
“Unfortunately, this morning I just had to make the call.”
The Tweed Heads march and service were also cancelled, as well as Murwillumbah’s march.
A dawn service in Deception Bay, in the Moreton Bay region was also called off.
