Severe storm warning for Melbourne cancelled

The weather bureau has called off a severe thunderstorm warning for heavy rain and flash flooding in Melbourne’s inner and eastern suburbs, but says it will continue to monitor the situation.

The Bureau of Meteorology, in an alert issued just after 5pm, said severe thunderstorms were detected on the radar near Preston, Reservoir and the area east of Pakenham.

Intense thunderstorms are forecast for Monday evening.

Intense thunderstorms are forecast for Monday evening.Credit: Chris Hopkins

The bureau said a humid and unstable air mass was hovering above the state and thunderstorms were forecast to hit areas near the CBD just after 6pm, but the alert was cancelled about 6.50pm.

Another severe thunderstorm warning for heavy rainfall remained in place on Monday evening for the Central, Mallee, and South-West districts. An earlier warning that included North-Central, North-East, West and South Gippsland and Wimmera districts was cancelled.

The bureau said storms in those areas were likely to produce heavy rain that might lead to flash flooding “over the next several hours” from about 7pm.

Locations likely to be affected there included Rainbow, Horsham, Warracknabeal, Edenhope, Colac and Ballarat.

Senior weather bureau meteorologist Chris Arvier said there were storms across much of the state on Monday evening, with the most severe concentrated through the South-West and Wimmera regions, and east of Melbourne.

“We’ve had a couple of observations of falls of around 30 millimetres in an hour [in Bunyip in the Latrobe Valley and just across the South Australian border], and that’s potentially enough to see some localised flash flooding under the most intense thunderstorms,” he said.

“We will probably see some storm activity persist into the evening, but in terms of intense thunderstorm activity, we are expecting that to start to die off after sunset.

“We’ll probably still see a little bit of thunder and lightning continuing overnight, but not this intense activity.”

The State Emergency Service said that people should avoid driving in dangerous conditions, stay out of floodwaters, secure loose items at their homes and stay away from fallen power lines.

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