Australia Weather News

South-east Queensland residents woke to loud cracks of thunder early this morning, as a band of storms moved across the region, delivering almost 10,000 lightning strikes in an hour.

The storms developed over Toowoomba around midnight before moving towards the coast by about 3:00am.

The one-hour light show began about 2:00am.

Many people wrote on social media that they were woken up by the storm.

"Well that was impressive for 2.30am," Rosemary Allie in Manly West said.

"Now can someone take Thor's hammer off him, some of us wanna [sic] sleep and not listen to the crazy border collie bark at the thunder."

Power was cut to more than 7,000 homes, but most have now been restored.

But Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecaster Sam Campbell said the storms delivered only about 2 to 10 millimetres of rain.

"There was a bit of rainfall in it. They would've been short, sharp and intense as they moved through," he said.

"But none of those storms were anywhere near what we'd class as severe, so we just watched them as they went through."

The BOM has warned there is the chance of a thunderstorm again today in Brisbane, possibly severe.