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Nearly 25,000 homes in southeastern Queensland found themselves lacking electricity on Monday's dawn after intense storm systems passed over the state, bringing powerful gusts topping 109km/h.

Massive Ice Stones and Broad Destruction

Locals witnessed substantial frozen pellets reaching sizes of 7 centimeters in particular locations. Weather authorities verified that multiple regions across the state had been affected by substantial ice precipitation.

This afternoon's storm has absolutely smashed our network!

Response teams were focused on reestablishing power throughout the affected regions, with dozens of response units working to address the extensive power failures.

Southern State's Storm Challenges

At the same time, nearly one thousand residents in the southern state also faced electricity disruptions after the metropolitan area experienced its most precipitation in over 500 days.

Emergency response teams handled 598 calls for help across the state, mostly for structural issues but also for collapsed vegetation and inundation.

Hardest Hit Regions

• The Werribee area - recorded substantial weather impact
• Hoppers Crossing area - various assistance requests
• Wyndham region - over 175 emergency requests

At the height on the previous day, more than 28k energy customers in Victoria were experiencing outages.

Meteorological Predictions

Damp conditions were forecast to persist along much of eastern Queensland this next several days as a low-pressure trough continued to pull in damp air against the coast.

Tuesday was forecast to be the wettest day, with continued thunderstorm potential expected across various areas of both regions.

Safety Concern

Public health experts alerted that there was an greater possibility of thunderstorm-induced asthma across the state's northern country region, especially given the existing atmospheric conditions.

This caution comes after previous incidents where comparable situations led to major medical consequences in the area.