Millions of Australians are on alert for severe thunderstorms and flash flooding on Friday night as torrential rains continue to cause havoc across the east coast.
One man died in rising floodwaters at Hibernia, near Rockhampton in central Queensland on Friday morning.
Thousands of residents living in low-lying areas along the Hawkesbury-Nepean river system in North Richmond, north-west of Sydney are meanwhile on a knife-edge with the city's Warragamba Dam due to break its banks overnight.
Dozens of severe thunderstorm and flood warnings were issued by the Bureau of Meteorology for northern and southeast Queensland and NSW on Friday evening.
The BoM warned damaging slow-moving thunderstorms were detected west of Brisbane, Logan and the Gold Coast.
Weather warnings have been issued for severe thunderstorms and flash flooding on Australia's east coast as torrential rains continue to create havoc. Pictured is flooding in the Molong area in NSW's central-west
The central west NSW town of Molong was underwater and facing a 'volatile' situation on Friday was fast-rising floodwaters
The storms were concentrated near Laidley, Gatton, Crows Nest, Border Ranges National Park, Moogerah and Hampton.
The weather service's warning was directed at hundreds of thousands of people in Ipswich, the Scenic Rim, Toowoomba and Lockyer Valley council areas.
The alert warned of 'heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding.'
Forest Hill, between Toowoomba and Brisbane, recorded 79mm of rain in just three hours on Friday afternoon.
The Bureau of Meteorology says the continued downpour has led to one of the wettest Novembers on record with widespread flooding across the eastern states.
The NSW State Emergency Services said it responded to more than 3,000 calls on Friday, following flooding near Orange and Newcastle.
Orange had its highest monthly rainfall since records began in 1870 with a total of 243.2mm recorded by Tuesday.
On Friday evening multiple flood warnings were also issued across regional NSW, which had already been been hit hard with raging floodwaters at Scone, Inverell and Gunnedah.
Weather charts on Friday evening showed Australia's eastern states bathed in blue indicating rain and flooding, with thunderstorms also forecast
A band of thunderstorms just west of the Gold Coast and Brisbane were threatening severe thunderstorms on Friday evening
Flooding at Gungal in the Upper Hunter Valley was captured in dramatic footage
The new warnings on Friday evening included the Macquarie River at Bathurst; the Belubula River at
