Bureau of Meteorology expects cold front to bring damaging weather and dangerous wind gusts across Victoria, NSW and Tasmania on Friday

Severe thunderstorms with “giant hail” the size of golfballs, wild winds and heavy rainfall are lashing Australia’s southeast as a cold front tracks across the nation, bringing the risk of tornadoes to parts of Victoria.

A senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology, Angus Hines, said the focus of the thunderstorm outbreak on Friday afternoon was turning to the southeastern states of New South Wales, and parts of Tasmania and Victoria.

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