Hail up to 13 cm reported as storms hit Logan and Brisbane

Strong thunderstorms started forming over New South Wales preparing a disaster that will unfold hundreds of kilometres away, on 24 November 2025. As the large supercell grew, carried by strong north easterly winds, the storm started becoming a serious beast.

By the time it reached South East Brisbane, it unleashed giant hail, up to 13 cm in size, across a widely populated area, devastating a large number of Brisbane home owners with hail damage to their home.

Giant hail reports followed from Logan’s Cornubia to Brisbane’s bayside suburbs (Hail Tracker, Nov 2025; MyCity Logan, Nov 2025).

Key points

Residents reported hail up to 9 cm at Cornubia and Eagleby
(MyCity Logan, Nov 2025).
11 cm hail reported at Manly; 13 cm at Chandler
(Weatherzone, Nov 2025).
Brisbane Airport gust reached 96 km/h at 3:19 pm
(Bureau of Meteorology, Nov 2025).

Cornubia and Eagleby report hail up to 9 cm

Cornubia and Eagleby were among the Logan suburbs reporting giant hail, with residents describing stones up to 9 cm across (MyCity Logan, Nov 2025).

As the storm moved North East, it started gaining strength before unleashing one final blow to the Brisbane coastal town of Manly.

Manly and Chandler report even larger stones

At Manly, hailstones up to 11 cm were reported around 3:30 pm as storms tracked through the region (Weatherzone, Nov 2025). Chandler recorded the largest reported hail size among the locations covered here: up to 13 cm (Bureau of Meteorology, Dec 2025).

Those measurements put the bayside reports above the already substantial hail sizes reported in Cornubia and Eagleby.

Brisbane: Chandler, The Gap, Manly and the listed Brisbane suburbs — local reports, not a property damage register.

Strong winds and rain recorded at Brisbane Airport

Hail was only part of the event.

A 96 km/h gust was recorded at Brisbane Airport at 3:19 pm. The station also recorded 29.0 mm of rain in the 24 hours to 9 am on 25 November (Bureau of Meteorology, 2026).

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References

Bureau of Meteorology — Australia in November 2025 — Read source
Bureau of Meteorology — Brisbane Airport daily observations, November 2025 — Read source
Bureau of Meteorology — Daily Weather Observations notes — Read source
Insurance Council of Australia — Catastrophe 255 — Read source
Queensland Reconstruction Authority — Queensland Southern Coast Severe Storms, 24–25 November 2025 — Read source
Weatherzone — What caused Monday’s giant hailstones over Brisbane? — Read source
ASIC Moneysmart — What to do after a natural disaster — Read source
Queensland Electrical Safety Office — Electrical safety during storms — Read source
HailTracker via HailHub — Summer Hail (Witt 1998) swathe archive — Read source
MyCity Logan — Outages and local hail reports, 25 November 2025 — Read source
Energex — South East Queensland storms, 24 November 2025 — Read source

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Brisbane suburb hail reports and radar estimates, plus wind, rainfall and sources for 24 November 2025.