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Hail blankets Queensland as lightning closes Brisbane Airport runway

9 News Australia's storm report follows drivers seeking cover, power cuts in Ipswich and disruption at the airport.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 215,918 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (18,008).

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0:17Hail covers yards, roads and pools; Pullar reports stones measuring up to seven centimeters in Mudgeeraba.
1:25More than a thousand Ipswich homes lose power, while hail blankets the Brisbane Lions' home ground.
1:50A lightning strike closes Brisbane Airport's western runway, leaving one operational runway at the time of the report.
2:24Youngberry outlines regional thunderstorm warnings before tracing the afternoon's storms on radar.
3:04Dry identifies James Hansen as the man found dead in floodwaters at Boompa.

Suburban yards, roads and swimming pools disappear beneath hail in 9 News Australia's report from South East Queensland. In Mudgeeraba, reporter Annie Pullar describes hailstones measuring up to seven centimeters hitting cars and sending drivers scrambling for cover.

The damage is not confined to where the ice falls. Pullar reports that a lightning strike closed Brisbane Airport's western runway, leaving just one runway operating at the time of the broadcast and triggering major delays.

The report drew roughly 195,000 views in its first 19 hours, an unusually large audience for a regular upload on the channel. Its projected first-day audience is about twelve times the usual start.

Among the images is the Brisbane Lions' home ground blanketed in hail. Pullar says the brief onslaught also left more than a thousand Ipswich homes without power. Weather presenter Garry Youngberry then traces the storms' afternoon progress on radar and outlines warnings covering the South East Coast, Wide Bay and Burnett regions.

The bulletin closes on a fatal consequence of the flooding: co-anchor Joel Dry identifies dairy farmer and former councillor James Hansen as the man found dead in floodwaters at Boompa on the Fraser Coast.

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