Most of Queensland is on flood watch as the tropical low that hammered north Queensland last week moves south.
Large parts of central Queensland as well as the Darling Downs and parts of the south east coast have been warned to brace for locally intense rainfall and flash flooding with six-hourly rainfall totals of between 60 and 150mm overnight and today.
In the south-east the 24-hour rainfall total could reach around 250mm on already wet catchments.
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A number of roads are closed on the Sunshine Coast and across the South Burnett, including all lanes of the Burnett Highway at Booubyjan, and there have been more than 100 calls for assistance to the SES.
A photo posted to social media shows a person sitting atop their submerged car at Boonara Creek on Murgon-Gayndah Road south of Booubyjan.
Video shows water cascading off Mt Coolum on the Sunshine Coast while the saturated ground has caused trees to come down across Brisbane.
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Emergency flood watch and act warnings were issued overnight and this morning for the South Burnett as well as Chinchilla and Sapphire, urging people to prepare for flash flooding and avoid driving.
The severe weather warning extends from Clermont and Rockhampton in the north, south through Emerald and Gladstone, into Bundaberg, Gympie, Kingaroy and the Sunshine Coast.
The rain is expected to continue throughout today and tonight before easing tomorrow as the low moves offshore.
Flood Warnings are current for: Burdekin downstream of Burdekin Falls Dam, Don and Proserpine, Pioneer, Connors, Isaac and Styx and Plane, Baffle, Kolan, Burnett, Burrum and Cherwell, Mary, Noosa, Upper Brisbane, Paroo, Nicholson, Upper Flinders, Lower Flinders, Norman, Georgina and Eyre, Diamantina, Thomson and Barcoo.
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