Two people have been taken to hospital after severe storms rolled across southeast Queensland.
A teenager suffered hip and leg injuries when a tree fell on him at Forest Lake, in Brisbane's southwest, brought down by high winds on Wednesday afternoon.
Paramedics took the 13-year-old to the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital for treatment.
A girl was also trapped under the fallen limb, however she suffered only very minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
Meantime, a traffic controller was struck by lightning on the Gold Coast during the storms.
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Ambulance officials say the woman was holding a stop-go roadworks sign at Helensvale hit by lightning about 3.20pm on Wednesday.
She had no visible injuries but was taken to Gold Coast University Hospital as a precaution.
The storm also brought golfball-size hail to the southern outskirts of Brisbane and smaller hailstones to the CBD.
At the height of the storms Energex was reporting almost 5000 customers were without power in the Logan area, with 877 affected in Brisbane.
More storms are predicted for Thursday, the official start of summer.
