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Four people were struck by lightning during dangerous storms that moved across south-east Queensland on Sunday afternoon, but all escaped without serious injury.

A number of houses sustained roof damage in Warwick and Ipswich as the storms moved across the state's southern inland, damaging roofs and cutting power to about 20,000 properties.

A 25-year-old man struck by lightning about 6:10pm at Springfield, south-west of Brisbane, was taken to hospital with minor injuries, Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) said.

In the Ipswich suburb of Riverview, a 24-year-old man also escaped with minor injuries from an electric shock received when he touched a car with fallen power lines laying across it, QAS said.

In Stanthorpe, south of Warwick, two backpackers were also struck by lightning at Mount Marley lookout.

Cameron Gow from Southern Downs Regional Council said the men were taken to Toowoomba Base Hospital.

"I understand they were trying to take a selfie," he said.

Both men were released from hospital this morning.

Energex recorded 107,000 lightning strikes and power crews have worked through the night to restore electricity to properties.

By early morning, about 1,000 properties, mostly around Ipswich, were still without power.

Damage not as bad as suspected in Warwick

Warwick authorities said on Sunday night about a dozen houses in the town had lost roofs.

The SES said it had received 35 calls for assistance in Warwick, but the damage may not be as severe as suspected.

Local SES controller Jamie Goodwin said they still had a handful of jobs to deal with.

"Mainly trees down and blocked gutters from the amount of hail and quite a few broken skylights as well," he said.

Warwick police Constable Ian Buckmaster said driving rain and wind gusts of more than 125 kilometres per hour had caused havoc.

"It is probably the worst wind I would have experienced. It was quite freaky," he said.

Southern Downs Council local disaster coordinator Peter See said emergency crews from Stanthorpe had travelled to Warwick to help with the clean-up.

"Large trees down on the road and reserves, in people's back yard's trampolines and things blown around," he said.

"Council staff are starting now to deal with anything that's in the road and we'll continue to do that until we're finished."

The dangerous storms later hit Ipswich, Logan and Brisbane.

SES controller Steve Waddell said there were more than 200 calls for help, mostly for water inundation and damage to roofs.

"Around the Ipswich area, [there were] 106 jobs, most of those around Goodna and then in the Brisbane city area we had 33 jobs and most of those around Moggill with water leaking through roofs."

Ipswich councillor Paul Tully said the storms also brought down historic jacaranda trees near the Goodna pool.

"These trees were planted by work gangs during the Great Depression in 1932," he said on social media.

Councillor Tully said some roads were also blocked by fallen trees.

"The clean-up could go for more than a week because there was a lot of devastation ... and hopefully we won't see too many more of these storms during the summer storm season."

Weather to remain unsettled for several days: BoM

The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said weather conditions would remain unsettled for the next few days with more showers across Brisbane and possible storms north of the city this afternoon.

Senior forecaster Brett Harrison said there would be storm activity tomorrow for Brisbane's western suburbs, Ipswich and the Lockyer Valley, and thunderstorms over a broad area on Wednesday.

"We'll see temperatures above 30 for the next couple of days and then a south-easterly change pushing through very late Wednesday and continuing through Thursday and will drop those temperatures back to around the mid 20s increasing slightly into the weekend."

ABC