Tornado touches down in Brisbane as supercell storm sweeps through

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The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is investigating reports a tornado in Queensland. 9News

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The BoM said the funnel cloud was captured by a webcam at Brisbane Airport as a supercell thunderstorm swept through.

This comes as a severe weather warning has been issued for parts of the Gold Coast, with residents warned to brace for damaging winds, large hailstones and heavy rain."The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 12:10 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on the weather radar near Hope Island, South Stradbroke Island and Coomera," it said.

"These thunderstorms are slow moving. They are forecast to affect waters off South Stradbroke Island by 12:40 pm.Photographer Marty Watson also captured today's tornado as it formed over Lomadra Drive."I saw this developing right in our car park," he told 9News.com.au. "I grabbed my video because it's something you don't see everyday. Initially it was calm as it formed. It didn't quite touch down in the car park though as it went over our building.

"The wind became fairly violent within 20 seconds though and the rain and hail was smashing us," he said.

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