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A house in Jimboomba was lost in a blaze, possibly after a lightning strike. - ABC
Two homes in south-east Queensland were destroyed by fire during yesterday's super cell storms, which also overturned caravans and saw a teenager struck by lightning.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued more storm warnings today, but most of the state went unscathed, in a reprieve from the heatwave and stormy weather forecast to continue this week.
Yesterday the State Emergency Service received about 80 calls for help amid rain, hail, winds up to 74 kilometres per hour and 390,000 lightning strikes.
The Lockyer Valley and Ipswich regions, west of Brisbane, were worst affected by flooding, roof damage and uprooted trees.
A house in Jimboomba, south of Brisbane, was razed after catching alight during the storms and still smouldered on Sunday afternoon.
Fire crews were also called to a house at Petrie, in Brisbane's north, but it could not be saved.
Witnesses to both fires said they started after large lightning strikes, however authorities are still working to determine the cause.
Meanwhile, a teenager is recovering in hospital with serious burns after he was hit by lightning at Allora on the Darling Downs.
Campers at Kilcoy, west of Brisbane, survived the extreme weather unscathed. The wind was so severe at the Lake Somerset Holiday Park, Roxy Spedding said, it felt like a cyclone.
A gum tree came down and caravans were flipped.
"It's very sad to see how many camps lost everything, and we are very grateful that big tree didn't hit us and we survived!" she wrote on Facebook.
At the height of the storm nearly 35,000 properties lost power.
By Sunday afternoon, 1,100 were still waiting to be connected.
Most of central and southern Queensland will continue to swelter through a severe heatwave with temperatures in the mid to late 40s, possibly until Thursday, and storm conditions are also set to continue.
"We will see a prolonged period of unsettled weather though around south-eastern Queensland and much of southern Central Queensland with further showers and storms forecast for much of the coming week," BOM forecaster Sam Campbell said.
ABC