The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a warning for Southern Sydney where the beaches could experience possible tornado hit with winds up to 200 kilometres per hour as recorded at Cronulla and Kurnell.

The warning followed the fall of hailstones on Sydney’s southern region and detection of tornado and thunderstorms that hit areas near Botany Bay as well as Sydney Airport and Maroubra respectively. The thunderstorms were likely to affect the city’s Sydney Olympic Park and Harbour Bridge along with Bondi Beach and Hornsby, Ryde and Terrey Hills by 11:40 a.m.

A warning of strong wind to hit parts of the Macquarie coast area has also been issued along with possibility of flash flooding around Gosford, Sydney and Wollongong. The parts of south west Queensland have also been struck by storms. At 11:05 a.m. local time, deadly thunderstorms were identified on the weather radar near Sydney Airport and waters off Bondi Beach, thereby showing an indication of moving towards the north.

“Very dangerous thunderstorms are forecast to affect Sydney city, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Manly by 11:35 a.m. and Gordon, Mona Vale and Terrey Hills by 12:05 p.m.,” the MoB said oin a statement. “Radar suggests possible tornado near Kurnell, and moving to north,” the statement added.

BoM’s forecaster Christopher Webb said that there were strong destructive winds observed blowing along with large hailstones and heavy rainfall. “There is an upper level trough affecting us right along the central abd southern parts of the costs,” Webb said.

“We’re expecting that the warning will be extended more generally thgrough the eastern parts of NSW as the day goes on. There is already a warning out for Sydney and in the very short term ... it looks like far southern parts of Sydney near the coast are at risk.”

Emergency services have proceeded towards the affected establishments after the tornado warning and detection in some parts of Sydney, according to AAP. Fire and Rescue NSW spokesperson said that the crews have reached the damaged spot to help.

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