<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The clean-up has begun after destructive storms tore through parts of Queensland, ripping the roof off a wedding venue and causing chaos at a school fete.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The south-east was bracing for more damage tonight amid warnings "very dangerous thunderstorms" could bring giant hail and destructive winds.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hail measuring seven and eight centimetres was recorded just after 5pm today west of Brisbane, less than 24 hours after wild weather wreaked havoc on on couple's wedding day.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/british-police-say-multiple-people-were-stabbed-on-a-train-near-cambridge-and-2-individuals-arrested/0f8497e4-a984-4b4f-b94f-875fe955340d"><strong><span>Nine people fighting for life in hospital after mass stabbing on UK train</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Descending on what was supposed to a be a happy couple's best day of their lives, a monster storm of hail, wind, lightning and torrential rain pummelled straight into a country wedding on Saturday night.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Wedding guest Maddison Hogarth said it "went from zero to 100 really, really quickly".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A total of 200 nervous guests took shelter from what they say felt like a tornado inside a shed in Camboon in the shire of Banana, inland from Bundaberg.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-weather-hail-storms-wedding-camboon/56dbcf78-8d55-4132-b314-78a2a7427a2a" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There was a lot of fear, a lot of crying, a lot of screaming," Hogarth said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But the group soon realised it wouldn't hold.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"One of my girlfriends, she had her little baby with her, she made the call to bunker under a steel table because she was so scared," an emotional Hogarth said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"We had people in cold rooms, we had to put kids in cold rooms. I've got goosebumps, it was pretty hard."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The building was flattened with people still inside but somehow nobody was seriously injured.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It was insane, very, very chaotic and very scary," she said</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Further south residents in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-weather-supercell-storm-destructive-hail/6ded9dc6-7119-445d-8f30-0eca8c737514" rel="" target="" title="Esk, north-west of Brisbane, were forced to hunker down from mammoth hail"><span>Esk, north-west of Brisbane, were forced to hunker down from mammoth hail</span></a><span>.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Isabelle Drake barely escaped the line of fire at Esk State School's fair.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Her partner Caleb Ballard's injuries are too graphic to show, but he's smiling through the pain. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I have quite a few welts and bruises along my back and my right hand is pretty swollen." he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It was pretty nuts."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/caxton-st-pub-nick-politis-brisbane-queensland/0eff42cf-fa34-4491-8cd9-1977f2e144bf"><strong><span>NSW billionaire buys Brisbane's most famous pub for $50 million</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nine people were treated for injuries despite severe storm warnings issued days in advance.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Nearby homes were also in the firing line.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It literally felt like a tornado and I haven't been in a tornado, but the noise and the destruction was terrible," Anne Petersen said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><h3><strong><span>Storms continue across Queensland</span></strong></h3></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>More massive hail, this time up to eight centimetres, hit parts of the state this afternoon.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The Bureau of Meteorology said the monster hail hit in the rural areas of Yarraman and Googa Creek, near Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.</span></div></div><div class="tweet" data-tweet-id="1984886898058293506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-user="9NewsAUS"></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As night fell, the bureau warned a "very dangerous thunderstorm" was west of the Sunshine coast and surging north from Blackbutt towards Nanango.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It was "likely to produce large, possibly giant hailstones, damaging, locally destructive winds and heavy, locally intense rainfall that may lead to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Other storms were heading east near Ipswich and in the Moreton Bay region, with Caboolture and Logan both in the firing line.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Severe thunderstorms were possible across south-east Queensland, rolling as far as north-east NSW.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A severe thunderstorm warning issued for parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields was cancelled.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The storms weren't expected to ease until Tuesday.</span></div></div>
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