Warning ahead of severe storms set to hit NSW and Queensland

Severe thunderstorms are expected to lash parts of Queensland and New South Wales for the second day with large hail, damaging wind and heavy rain all possible in both states.

Eastern Australia was hit with extreme conditions yesterday with Newcastle and Port Stephens in central NSW experiencing wind gusts of 95 kilometres per hour and 24 millimeters of rain in 20 minutes at Maitland Airport.

Further north, multiple storms delivered accumulated rainfall totals of over 50 millimeters in parts of northeast NSW and southeast Queensland between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.

This included 52 millimeters at Moree, which was its heaviest rain in four years, and 116 millimeters at Uki in the Tweed Valley.

The weather pattern that triggered Monday's wet and stormy weather will remain in place today with weather warnings in place for NSW and Queensland.

The most active region for storms today, and the area most likely to see severe storms, is northeastern and northern inland NSW and the southern/southeast inland of Queensland.

Showers and storms are possible in Sydney and Brisbane today as well, although most likely in western parts of both cities.

The storms are the result of a broad trough also generating showers and storms in northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory.

A weak front is bringing the odd light shower to Tasmania.

Conditions will be mostly clear elsewhere under a high pressure system.