Rescue crews have saved dozens of Australians from rising floodwaters including a six-week-old baby as severe storms continue to pummel the country's east coast.
The wild weather that pounded NSW on Friday night headed north on Saturday, hammering Queensland's south-east as severe thunderstorms tracked across the Darling Downs region west of Brisbane.
The number of rescues across Queensland grew to nine by Saturday evening, compared to the 34 made by the NSW State Emergency Service the previous night.
On Saturday evening the Bureau of Meteorology issued a warning to residents living from Goondiwindi near the NSW border to Chinchilla, inland from the Sunshine Coast.
The bureau said severe thunderstorms and possible flash flooding could batter the region, which is west of the Great Dividing Range, on Saturday night.
The flooding in the eastern states moved from central west of NSW northwards to hammer southeast Queensland. In NSW a bridge collapse caused a vehicle to fall in
Queensland firefighters were called to nine rescues overnight as cars became stuck in rising floodwater
That alert was later cancelled just before 9pm, with the BoM saying the 'immediate threat of severe thunderstorms has passed'.
Further severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for farming communities across the Darling Downs and Granite Belt, west of Toowoomba.
About 230mm of rain has fallen in the Lockyer Valley Queensland's south east over the past five days.
Many towns recorded a month's rain in just hours on Friday evening leading to nine rescues from flood waters - including a six-week-old baby.
'Just after 10.40pm police and emergency services were called to the Cunningham Highway at Warwick where water had risen half a metre over Freestone Creek Bridge,' Queensland police said.
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