Queensland residents are waking up without electricity this morning after a night of wild winds and rain brought down power lines.

The state's south-east was lashed with severe storms which began late yesterday afternoon, sending golf ball-sized hail and destructive winds across the region.

A supercell pushed north from NSW unleashed damaging conditions, including huge hailstones in Ipswich, Caboolture and Samford, north of Brisbane.

The Bureau of Meteorology reported five-centimetre hailstones in these areas.

Around 4800 homes were without power at the peak of the storm at 9.45pm yesterday.

And 100 customers in south-east Queensland are still believed to be impacted by the outages today.

Energex said it was working to fix the power outages in affected areas.

While the storm may

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