Heavy rain and damaging winds will continue to hammer Queensland's Central Coast, the Whitsundays, Central Highlands and Coalfields districts as ex-tropical cyclone Debbie heads south.
Early on Wednesday the Bureau of Meteorology said the tropical low system had moved over inland central Queensland, bringing the risk of flash flooding with up to 250mm of rainfall in a day possible.
The heaviest rainfall was expected over Springsure to Yepoon.
As the system continues moving south it could bring major flooding to Ayr, and towns along the NSW border later in the week.
Damaging winds, with peak gusts of around 120km/h, continued in the region particularly about the coast and islands and also over higher ground inland.
Currently the strongest wind gusts are affecting areas north of about Emerald to St Lawrence.
